THEO 206 Lecture 2: Lesson 2
11 Feb 2017
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At the time christianity was a new religion, and ended up being persecuted. Roman empire was so organized lasted about a thousand years. Provided welfare to its citizens and people who were served as roman clients in the empire. 4th century, roman religion was the prosecuting christianity, by the end of fourth century christianity was the only legal religion in the empire, and then paganism was then forbidden and jewish religion being just tolerated. Roman religion served to make sure that there was harmony between humans and. Roman religion was a polytheistic religion, believed in many gods, very different from. Culturally and religiously, the east colonized the empire. All of the following provided a certain security and relative prosperity known as pax romana (or. Romani peace) for the populations around the mediterranean basin. Administration: roman citizenship was possessed by entire cities, but it was bestowed on others as recompense for services rendered to rome.
