HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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win the battle
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become emperor
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become rich
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be persecuted
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Detailed explanation-1: -He made the persecution of Christians illegal by signing the Edict of Milan in 313 and helped spread the religion by bankrolling church-building projects, commissioning new copies of the Bible, and summoning councils of theologians to hammer out the religion’s doctrinal kinks.
Detailed explanation-2: -Constantine was a pagan monotheist, a devotee of the sun god Sol Invictus, the unconquered sun. However before the Milvian Bridge battle he and his army saw a cross of light in the sky above the sun with words in Greek that are generally translated into Latin as In hoc signo vinces (’In this sign conquer’).
Detailed explanation-3: -The Battle of the Milvian Bridge took place between the Roman Emperors Constantine I and Maxentius on 28 October 312.