1. Chapter 5 - An age of Empires: Rome and Han China, 753 B.C.E.-600 C.E. Leanna Nicholas Bouchard/4A PowerPoint Chap.5 Mon. 9/24/07

2. The Rise of Christianity The Rise of Christianity

3. Jesus Many were waiting for their Messiah, the “Anointed One”, who would “liberate the Jewish people and drive the Romans out of the land.” Then Jesus, a young carpenter from Galilee, was recognized as the Messiah, a half-century after his death. “Some experts believe that he was essentially a rabbi, or teacher, and that, offended by what he perceived as Jewish religious and political leaders’ excessive concern with money and power and by the perfunctory nature of mainstream Jewish religious practice in his time, he prescribed a return to the personal faith and spirituality of an earlier age.”

5. Jesus’ Crucifixcation Jesus’ Crucifixion “They turned him over to the Roman governor, Pontius Pilate. Jesus was imprisoned, condemned, and executed by crucifixion, a punishment usually reserved for common criminals.”

6. Paul “Paul, a Jew from the city of Tarsus in southeast Anatolia, converted to the new creed. Between 45 and 58 C.E. he threw his enormous energy into spreading the word. Traveling throughout Syria-Palestine, Anatolia, ad Greece, he became increasingly frustrated with the refusal of most Jews to accept his claim that Jesus was the Messiah and had ushered in a new age.”

8. How Christianity originated from Jewish? How Christianity originated from Jewish? “Discovering a spiritual hunger among many non-Jews (sometimes called ‘gentiles’), Paul redirected his efforts toward them and set up a string of Christian (from the Greek name christos, meaning ‘anointed one’, given to Jesus by his followers) communities in the eastern Mediterranean … Paul’s non-Jewish converts, and Christianity began to diverge more and more from its Jewish roots.”

9. “The expansion of Christianity should be seen as part of a broader religious tendency. By the Greek Classical period a number of “mystery” cults had gained popularity by claiming to provide secret information about the nature of life and death and promising a blessed afterlife to their adherents.”