Judaism

• Monotheistic religion 

Jesus

• Son of God

Gentile

• Not Jewish

St. Paul 

• Spread message to Jews and to non Jews (gentiles) 

Constantine 

• 1st Christian emperor 

• Put the Christian cross on his shield and won the battle

• Deathbed conversion 

Edict of Milan 

• 313 CE ~ The official tolerance of Christianity

Germanic tribes, fall of Roman Empire

• A bunch of Germanic tribes invaded Rome and caused its collapse

• Germanic Kingdoms 

  • Ostrogoths -> Italy

  • Visigoths -> Spain

  • Anglo-Saxon -> England

  • Vandals -> North Africa

  • Celts -> United Kingdom

  • Franks -> France

Monk/monasticism

• Monk 

  • Lives apart from society in monasteries

  • Religious vows devotes life to God 

• Monasteries

  • Committed to living a purely Christian life

  • Separate from the ‘wickedness’ of the world

  • Headed by abbots

• Monasticism 

  • Practice of living as a monk

St. Benedict

Charlemagne

Carolingian renaissance

Byzantine Empire

Justinian