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5 days ago · According to modern theories, Christianity became established in the third century, before Constantine, paganism did not end in the fourth century, and imperial legislation had only limited effect before the era of the Eastern emperor Justinian I (reign 527 to 565).
5 days ago · Buddha is one of the many epithets of a teacher who lived in northern India sometime between the 6th and the 4th century before the Common Era. His followers, known as Buddhists, propagated the religion that is known today as Buddhism.
4 days ago · In the aftermath of Alexander the Great‘s lightning conquest of the Persian Empire in the late 4th century BC, the lands of Central Asia became a melting pot of Greek and local cultures.
2 days ago · In the 4th century, the emperors Diocletian and Constantine were able to slow down the process of decline by splitting the empire into a Western part with a capital in Rome and an Eastern part with the capital in Byzantium, or Constantinople (now Istanbul).
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2 days ago · Christianity took a two-fold detour in the fourth century. First, when the emperor Constantine became Christian and spread Christianity through the empire in order to make some peace between warring factions of Christians. While peacemaking is a good thing, Christianity paid a severe price when it moved from being essentially a thorn in the empire’s […]
5 days ago · Scholars fall into two categories on how and why this dramatic change took place: the long established traditional catastrophists who view the rapid demise of paganism as occurring in the late fourth and early fifth centuries due to harsh Christian legislation and violence, and contemporary scholars who view the process as a long decline that ...
5 days ago · In the 4th century there were two powerful Germanic confederations: the Alemanni on the Rhine and the Goths on the Danube, both controlled by the military elite whose power over their fellow tribespeople continued to increase. Other contacts with the empire resulted in cultural borrowings.
