Christianity

Assembled from 46 blocks · 3 evidence · 44 related

1. Story
2. A monotheistic tradition originating among Jewish communities of Roman Judaea in the first century CE. Adherents hold that Jesus of Nazareth is the Christ and that he was raised from the dead; historians treat that as the tradition's foundational claim rather than as a datable event, and reconstruct the movement's early spread from letters, martyr accounts, and later imperial legislation. Christianity travelled first along Roman roads, sea lanes and Jewish diaspora networks in the eastern Mediterranean, and later became an instrument and a beneficiary of state power — in Armenia and Aksum in the fourth century, in the Roman Empire from the same period, and in European colonial expansion from the sixteenth century onward. Eastward, a separate branch travelled the Silk Road as far as Tang China.
3. Knowledge
4. Constantinople
5. Christianity
6. Judaism
7. Alexandria
8. Connections
9. Church of the East (Nestorian Christianity)
10. Alexandria
11. Constantinople
12. Judaism
13. Jerusalem (Old City)
14. Aksum
15. Armenia's traditional adoption of Christianity as state religion
16. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
17. Aksum adopts Christianity under King Ezana
18. Alopen received at the Tang court
19. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
20. Christianity
21. The Mediterranean Sea (Mare Nostrum)
22. Latin as an Administrative Language
23. Battle of Actium
24. Dedication of Constantinople
25. The Egyptian cable land crossing
26. Antioch on the Orontes
27. Dedication of Constantinople
28. Silkworm cultivation reaches Byzantium
29. Plague reaches the Mediterranean
30. Christianity
31. The 'Edict of Milan' — toleration and restitution in the Roman Empire
32. Dedication of Constantinople
33. Administrative division of the empire on the death of Theodosius I
34. Odoacer deposes Romulus Augustulus - the contested 'fall' of the Western Roman Empire
35. Compilation of the Corpus Iuris Civilis
36. Ottoman capture of Constantinople
37. Hagia Sophia, Constantinople / Istanbul
38. Justinian commissions Hagia Sophia from two geometers
39. Istanbul
40. Christianity
41. Jerusalem (Old City)
42. Measured global religious composition, 2010-2020
43. Evidence
44. The document conventionally called the 'Edict of Milan' survives as a letter from Licinius to provincial governors, posted at Nicomedia on 13 June 313, recording terms agreed with Constantine at Milan; it is formally not an edict and was not issued at Milan.
45. After King Ezana's conversion, around 340-356 CE, Aksumite coinage replaced pre-Christian symbols with the cross; Aksumite coins are among the earliest anywhere to depict crosses, and Aksum adopted Christianity as a state religion in the mid-fourth century.
46. Between 2010 and 2020 Christians fell 1.8 percentage points to 28.8% of world population (about 2.3 billion, an absolute rise of 122 million) while Muslims rose 1.8 points to 25.6% (an absolute rise of 347 million); Christians remained the largest group and Muslims the fastest-growing.