HISTORY
ANCIENT ROME
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Question
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Most Christians were drowned in the Jordan River.
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Every Christian died on the cross like Jesus Christ.
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They put them into areas so they could be publicly killed by animals.
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They killed male Christians in private jail cells, so no one would see.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A cohort (roughly 480 soldiers) selected for punishment by decimation was divided into groups of ten. Each group drew lots (sortition), and the soldier on whom the lot of the shortest straw fell was executed by his nine comrades, often by stoning, clubbing, or stabbing.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even so, the persecution of Christians continued. Galerius, Diocletian’s handpicked successor, hated Christians and organized a war of extermination against them in the eastern empire. Christians were mutilated, burned alive, and crucified.
Detailed explanation-3: -Yes, Christians were fed to half-starved lions, burned alive, and hacked to death, but the most interesting aspect of this was that the Christians who died in the Colosseum wanted to die there as martyrs.
Detailed explanation-4: -By 200, the faith had permeated most regions of the Roman Empire, though Christians were mostly in the larger urban areas (Gaul, Lyons, Carthage, Rome). By 325, an estimated 7 million were Christians with as many as 2 million killed for the faith.