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Identifier: dawnofamericanhi00nida (find matches)
Title: The dawn of American history in Europe
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Nida, William Lewis
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Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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civilized world was at peace, when there wasone language and one law for all, when there was a vasttrade and unhmited travel among all parts of the empire,that Christ lived and taught and was crucified. No bettertime could have been chosen for the spread of a new re-ligion. Rome allowed all religions in the empire. Peoplemight worship as they pleased, provided only that theywould also worship the emperor. The teachings of Jesuswere quickly carried by missionaries over the entire Romanworld. At first only the lowly and the poor beheved inJesus ; but as the centuries passed, the rich and noble classesbegan to accept Christianity. Christians Persecuted. — Because the Christians heldmeetings in secret and refused to mingle with other people,or to celebrate Roman holidays, and because they refusedto worship the emperor or enlist in the army, they werethought to be traitors to Rome. And so they came to bebitterly persecuted. Even the best emperors put many to ROME CONQUERING THE WORLD 35
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1,6 DAWN OF AMERICAN HISTORY IN EUROPE the sword and threw others to the hons; but they could notstamp out the new sect. Once when a great part of the cityof Rome was hurried to the ground, and the people wereaccusing their wicked emperor, Nero, of ordering it doneso that he might build it up again more beautiful thanbefore, Nero declared that the Christians had burned thecity. To make it appear that he was innocent, he be- Arch of Const.wtine. gan torturing and killing the Christians. He coveredtheir bodies with tar and burned them at night astorches in his imperial gardens. Some he wrapped in theskins of wild beasts and threw them to dogs to be tornand killed. Empire Becomes Christian. — The more the Christianswere persecuted, the more they increased in numbers. TheRomans had ceased to beheve in their old gods; and as theChristians increased, there came at last an emperor whoneeded their help. Constantine was hard pressed by hisrivals, and wished to have the Christians help him to

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