THE CHANGING WORLD OF ROME

THE CHANGING WORLD OF ROME: EMPERORS, CHRISTIANS, AND INVADERS-
- GENTILES- a term for non-Jews; Christians used it to refer to worshipers of the gods and goddesses.
LO1 THE JEWS IN THE WORLD OF GREECE AND ROME
- Christianity began as one of many Jewish religious groups, each of which had its own answer to a disturbing question that faced the Jews as a whole.
- the Jews believed that God had already revealed his will to them through prophets and holy writings.
- the worship of one god was not for the Jews alone.
- the Jews were a prominent people both inside and outside the roman empire.
JEWISH DISPUTES IN A CHANGING WORLD
- the change began in the second century b.c. when the Greeks started to lose their place as rulers of the lands between the Mediterranean Sea and the Indian Ocean, and for the first time since the days of david and Solomon almost a thousand years before a powerful Jewish leader.