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The Rise of Christianity
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During the Roman Empire, Jesus of Nazareth began preaching a message of love and forgiveness. His life and teachings led to the rise of Christianity.

The Rise of Christianity
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1. Father, Son, Holy Spirit
Image: Trinity

2. Allowed missionaries to build a church in his capital city of Canterbury
Image: King Ethelbert of Kent

3. Teachers and writers in the early Church, many of whom were bishops, whose teachings are a witness to the Apostolic Tradition.
Image: the Church Fathers

4. to show
Image: display

5. The language of the Romans
Image: Latin

6. assemblages of different populations that live together in a defined area
Image: communities

7. Emperor of Rome who adopted the Christian faith and stopped the persecution of Christians (280-337)
Image: Constantine

8. An area distinguished by a unique combination of trends or features.
Image: region

9. cast out from the church
Image: Excommunicate

10. Constantine's mother who helped him build churches in Rome and Jerusalem

11. A mountaintop fortress where the Jews held off the Roman soldiers for three years.
Image: Masada

12. Eastern half of the Roman Empire that survived the fall of the Western half.
Image: Byzantine Empire

13. Emperor of the Roman Empire who made Christianity the official religion of the empire.
Image: Theodosius

14. (Christianity) the act of delivering from sin or saving from evil
Image: Salvation

15. church members who are not clergy
Image: Laity

16. A man who devotes his life to a religious group, often giving up all he owns.
Image: monk

17. Short stories that use everyday images to communicate religious messages.

18. a system or organization in which people or groups are ranked one above the other according to status or authority.
Image: hierarchy

19. (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate)
Image: Jerome

20. a formal split within a religious organization; any division or separation of a group or organization into hostile factions
Image: schism

21. A large sea between two continents, southern Europe and northern Africa
Image: Mediterranean

22. Followers of Jesus
Image: Disciples

23. a teacher and prophet born in bethlehem and active in nazareth; his life and sermons form the basis for Christianity
Image: Jesus of Nazareth

24. a representation or image of a sacred personage, often considered sacred itself; an image or picture; a symbol; a graphic symbol on a computer monitor display; an object of blind devotion
Image: icon

25. He brought Christianity to Africa and made it the official religion of Axum.
Image: King Ezana of Axum