Why is christianity regarded as the most important of Roman legacies to western civilization?
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Were learning about the early spread of christianity in comparative civilization 12 and were on ancient rome unit.
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Were learning about the early spread of christianity in comparative civilization 12 and were on ancient rome unit.
Why is christianity regarded as the most important of Roman legacies to Western civilization?
Help please!
Lily
January 5th, 2012 at 7:18 am
Aidan
To most people its not. I took a world history class and they said that it was responsible for the fall of Rome.
January 6th, 2012 at 6:31 pm
Savannah
Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?
Attendee: Brought peace?
Life of Brian
January 8th, 2012 at 12:12 pm
Nevaeh
Gee, and here I thought it was good sewers, concrete, arches, and republics.
January 10th, 2012 at 5:38 am
Charles
Christianity? What about democracy and the sewage system and architecture and live entertainment and (dare I say) pizza…
January 10th, 2012 at 7:45 pm
Benjamin
The world can do quite well without Christians; it cannot do without sewers and aqueducts.
January 11th, 2012 at 1:24 pm
Hannah
isnt it roman catholic?
January 12th, 2012 at 11:11 am
Grace
Because it’s the one the Romans used to carry on their legacy. After the fall of the Roman empire they persisted by means of assimilation of the religions and mythologies around them, and by virtue of the “Holy” Roman Empire, they still continue to this day.
January 13th, 2012 at 4:38 pm
Brianna
Because it grew in power there. It started weakly in Israel ( Judea) but never took root. It was not until it hit Rome that it got strong. The emperor Constantine’s mother was a Christian so when he made a political decision to unify religions in Rome ,he chose Christianity to be the official religion. He changed it to fit his own Mithra ( Sun God) beliefs and it got to be very powerful as a result of his championing it. So without Rome to make it popular, it would have died out.
Now christianity has grown vastly powerful and influential over the centuries, thanks to ROME!
January 15th, 2012 at 8:21 am
Emma
???
Rome made a huge amount of progress in the centuries before Christianity took over. However, Christianity was adopted in 380 as the official religion and Rome was sacked in 410, only thirty years later. Whoever gave you this assignment is either a terrible history teacher or a brainwashed teacher at some kind of Christian school. Maybe Christians believe this but no one else will.
Torg
January 17th, 2012 at 7:03 am
Anna
This sounds suspiciously like a school term paper or homework topic.
But I’ll play. The Roman Empire was the most effective instrument of communication at that time. Without the Roman roads and the constant traffic in messengers and traders, Christianity would not have spread anywhere near as fast as it did. It wasn’t long before the Emperor saw the political advantage of using Christianity to manipulate the masses into compliance with the will of Rome. The bishop of Rome was deemed to be the most important of all the bishops, and developed into the head of the Church with more and more centralized power in the Church corresponding to the Emperor’s power in secular life. The alliance of the two powerful figures was invincible until the secular part disintegrated, leaving the Pope the only truly consolidated power in Europe.
January 18th, 2012 at 3:15 am
Jaden
To cut a very long story very short the office of the Augustus became the Pope. Which took us to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the First Reich, via the many wars of religion to the start of the 19thC. The trouble the break up of the First Reich caused took us to more turmoil which lead us via Bismark, the Second Reich to the First World War, Hitler`s Third Reich, World War Two and on to the present day.
Add in the split of the Empire and it`s counter part the Orthodox Church, remember that Kaiser and Tsar are `Caesar` words and there you go.
Christianity had been the ultimate and sole controlling political system in Europe since the 4thC, it made the Emperors and Kings on both sides of the East/West divide, one can see very distinct echoes of it in the USA today.