UNIT I<\/p>\n\n\n\n
300-650 AD<\/strong> The Imperial Church, churches of Asia and Africa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 293 AD \u2013 Diocletian separated the Roman empire under four emperors to better manage the vast land for stability purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 303 AD \u2013 Diocletian issues a series of four edicts that prohibits open practice or worship of Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 312 AD \u2013 Constantine one of the four emperors begins to wage war against Maxentius. He leads crushing victories utilizing \u201cChi Ro\u201d emblazoned on shields of his army and denounces that Christianity is the cause of why he won these conflicts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 313 AD \u2013 Edict of Milan is struck between the Roman emperors Constantine and Licinius, which opens religious freedoms for Christian and non-Christian religions for open worship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 324-330 AD \u2013 after moving the capital and officiating it in 330 AD Constantinople quadrupled in size and had any buildings and churches built. The great palace of the emperors being the most notable that stood from 330 AD through 1453 after the death of the last emperor of Rome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 325 AD \u2013 First council of Nicaea takes place in the city of Nicaea headed by Christian bishops and Constantine. \u00a0In this council they tried to bring together a consensus of religious ideas, primarily issues with the relationship of God and his Son and whether he was his own entity or was he a part of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 381 AD \u2013 Council of Constantinople declares that Jesus was not created and that he is equal to the father in the Holy trinity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 431 AD \u2013 Council of Ephesus convenes and condemns the teachings of Nestorius where its decided that the Virgin Mary can be called the birth giver of Christ, but not the birth giver of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 484-518 AD – The Acacian Schism between the Greek (Eastern Churches) and Latin (Western Churches) due to difference in beliefs of Jesus being Divine or Human. Which finally ended when Justine I speed up negotiations and brought the church back together. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 527 AD \u2013 Justinian becomes one of the most significant emperors managing the difficult balance eastern church philosophy and the Miaphyste cuase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 571 AD \u2013 Abraham of Kashkar begins to bring the many monasteries in the east that have fallen into disarray back into form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 614 AD \u2013 Khusarua II sacks Jerusalem and takes the \u201ctrue cross\u201d, which is believed to have been the cross Jesus was crucified from.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 628 AD \u2013 Sassanian Shah Khusaru II is murdered by his own son prince Shiroi, Shiroi then proceded to have all male relatives killed off to hold power and renames himself Kavad II. Kavad II only held power for a few months before being killed in a coup. Though many of his goodwill gestures towards Christians continued to prove fruitful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 635 AD \u2013 Alopen is sent as an emissary to China to spread Christianity. Several Christian monasteries are built in China with support of Chinese Tang emperor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Unit II<\/p>\n\n\n\n 300 AD – 1300 AD<\/strong> Rise of Rome<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 293 AD – Diocletian creates Tetrarchy, moving the administration out of Rome into four major cities<\/p>\n\n\n\n 321 AD – Constantine defeats the Tetracrhy and declares himself the sole Augustus<\/p>\n\n\n\n 324 AD \u2013 Constantine becomes the sole Roman emperor after many civil wars are waged against the other three emperors put into power by Diocletian. Also the capital of the Roman empire is moved from Byzantine to Constantinople under the order of Constantine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 366-384 AD – Damascus rises to power as Pope through threats of coercion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 374 \u2013 397 AD\u00a0 – Ambrose, a military and political man, through a weird twist of fait becomes the bishop of Milan.\u00a0 We begin to see a bishop who controls some power over political decisions, and he has many churches built in his time. He\u2019s also the first bishop to have a church built for his final resting place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 382 AD – Pope Damascus directs Jerome to translate the bible into Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 385-400 AD – Jerome of Stridon is commissioned to translate the first Latin bible, called The Vulgate, that was used as a primary text for the Catholic church up until the 16th<\/sup> century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 386-430 AD \u2013 Augustine of Hippo has many insights on marriage, sex, and what good marriage brings about.\u00a0 He is ordained as a Bishop in 391 in Hippo.\u00a0 His ideologies on marriage and sex lasted over 1,000 years influencing many religious and political leaders for many years to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 410 AD \u2013 The sack of Rome by \u00a0Visigoths led by their King, Alaric has major setbacks to the Roman empire.\u00a0 This was seen as the beginning of the Western Roman empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 451 AD – Council of Chalcedon declares Jesus is both Human and divine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 452 AD – Leo a negotiator with Atilla the Hun retreats from Italian invasion<\/p>\n\n\n\n 455 AD – Sack of Rome by Vandals<\/p>\n\n\n\n 481 AD – Merovech becomes king of one branch of the Germanic people known as the Franks<\/p>\n\n\n\n 493 AD – Arian Ostrogoth seizes cit of Ravenna the last capital of the western emperors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 503 AD – Merovingian’s become protectors of Rome against Arian rulers<\/p>\n\n\n\n 536 AD – Silverius becomes Pope with backing of Ostrogoth monarchs in Ravenna<\/p>\n\n\n\n 546 AD – Sack of Rome by the Ostrogoth’s<\/p>\n\n\n\n 553 AD – Second Council of Constantinople<\/p>\n\n\n\n 597 AD – Pope Gregory I sends Augustine of Canterbury to England to extend the frontiers of Christianity<\/p>\n\n\n\n 649 AD – Pope Martin I arrested by imperial officials for presiding over a council in Rome opposing the emperor’s monothelete theology. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 680-681 AD – Third council of Constantinople<\/p>\n\n\n\n 751 AD – end of Merovingian rule<\/p>\n\n\n\n 800 AD – Charlemagne crowned holy Roman emperor<\/p>\n\n\n\n 814 AD – Charlemagne passes away and <\/p>\n\n\n\n 843 AD – Roman empire divided into 3 Frankish kingdoms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 869-870 AD – fourth council of Constantinople condemns patriarch Photius<\/p>\n\n\n\n 879-880 AD – Fourth council of Constantinople\u00a0restores Photius, condemns Pope Nicolas<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1009 Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah destroys the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the tomb of Jesus in Jerusalem, and then rebuilds it to its current state<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1031 AD – collapse of Muslim caliphate of Cordoba<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1054 AD – East\u2013West Schism split between Eastern (Orthodox Christianity) and Western (Roman Catholic) churches formalized<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1074 AD – Crusade of the holy land led by Gregory VII fails<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1099 AD – Western soldiers win siege of city of Antioch, and capture Jerusalem<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1139 AD – Second Latern council declares all clerical marriages unlawful and invalid<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1187 AD – armies of Kurdish military hero Saldin take Jerusalem<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1204 AD – Crusade to Constantinople sacks it and turns it into Latin empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n UNIT III<\/p>\n\n\n\n 450 – 1800 AD Islam and Orthodoxy<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n 610-632 AD \u2013 The prophet Muhammad creates the Quran and flees Mecca to form the \u00a0Muslim religion which begins to see a severe division for Christianity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 638 AD – city of Jerusalem falls to Muslim invasion<\/p>\n\n\n\n 641 AD – Muslim siege of Alexandria<\/p>\n\n\n\n 678 AD – emperor Constantine IV repelled muslim invaders from Constantine<\/p>\n\n\n\n 690’s AD – Dome of the Rock constructred<\/p>\n\n\n\n 732-733 AD – Charles Martel repels Muslims at Poitiers halting their advance in Europe<\/p>\n\n\n\n 962 AD – Byzantines lose Sicily to muslim control<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1007 AD – Mongol Khan receives a vision from saint sergius and promises deliverance from a snow storm for conversion to Christianity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1025 AD – reign of emperor Basil II ends<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1071 AD – Emperor Romanus defeated at Manzikert and is taken prisoner<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1081 AD – Alexios Komnenos, seized power and established his dynasty on 1147-1149 AD – Second Crusade from failed to achieve its objectives in Palestine and Damascus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1215 AD – Catholic Fourth Lateran Council decrees special dress for Jews and Muslims, and declares Waldensians, founded by Peter Waldo, as heretics. One of the goals is the elimination of the heresy of the Cathars<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1250’s AD – Mamlukks seized power in Egypt<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1256 AD – Berke murders his Christian nephew in order to take power as the Kipchak Khan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1258 AD – Mongols sack Baghdad and massacre the city save for the Christians who inhabited there. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1261 AD – Latins expelled from Constantinople. <\/p>\n\n\n\n 1279 AD – Kublai khan becomes the first Yuan emperor of China<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1348-1349 AD – plauge known as Black death strikes Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1354 AD – Christians in Egypt are persecuted and forced to recite islamic profession of faith<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1375 AD – Cilicia city fell to Mamluk forces<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1378\u20131418 AD – Western Schism in Roman Catholicism<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1441 AD – Council of Florence<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1453 AD – Fall of Constantinople overrun by the Ottoman Empire<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1455 AD – Gutenberg Bible, first printed Bible, by Johann Gutenberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n 1570 AD – island of Cyprus captured from Venetians by the Turks<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" UNIT I 300-650 AD The Imperial Church, churches of Asia and Africa 293 AD \u2013 Diocletian separated the Roman empire under four emperors to better manage the vast land for stability purposes. 303 AD \u2013 Diocletian issues a series of … Continue reading
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