THE ROMAN EMPIRE
- senate kills Caesar by stabbing him 23 times
- the senate told Caesar that they needed to have a meeting on the ides of march and killed him
- the people in the senate in on the plot stabbed him so they all had "blood on their hands"
- Octavian- AKA Caesar Augustus was Julius Caesar's Grand nephew who took over at the age of 18
Augustus- the first emperor- getting it done
- Begins the Pax Romana - a period of peace and prosperity
- Built roads, aqueducts (brought waters to the cities)
- Set up civil service to take care of roads, the grain supply, even a postal service
- Augustus dies at age of 76 in A.D. 14, and passes power to
From Jesus to Christianity
- Jesus was a Roman citizen and a practicing Jew
- At 30, he began his ministry (A.D. 31- 33), preaching to the poor (and there were lots of them) in the empire, and reading out to outsiders
- Statements like "My kingdom is not of this world" made the Romans (and the Jews) nervous, and they began to plan his execution
- The governor of the roman province of Judaea, Pontius Pilate (prompted by Jewish high priests), sentences Jesus to death by crucifixion
- For somebody who is such a huge figure in the world today during his lifetime he wasn't a big deal
The word spread about the risen Jesus
- Paul is instrumental in telling the world about Jesus' life, death, resurrection, and message
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