Marked Jerusalem

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The first Christians

Jesus of Nazareth was crucified in Jerusalem about AD 30. His followers spread their faith through the Roman empire, were sometimes persecuted, and by AD 380 Christianity had become the empire’s official religion.

Date
About AD 30 to 380VI · The classical world
Place
Jerusalem · Antioch · Rome · Dura-EuroposThe Middle East, Europe, Africa
Laid out as
A beliefA faith or a way of thinking, from its central idea outwards to its practice and its spread.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IJesus of Nazareth
  2. IIPaul and his letters
  3. IIIThe gospels
  4. IVHouse churches and catacombs
  5. VPersecution and martyrs
  6. VIConstantine and the empire

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Jesus
  • Peter
  • Paul of Tarsus
  • Perpetua
  • Constantine

Objects

  • The house church at Dura-Europos
  • Early papyri of the gospels

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

AD 30 to AD 380. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?