HISTORY
ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY
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that arranges officials according to rank
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that promotes cooperation with other churches
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that identifies and punishes heretics
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that hires the best qualified candidates
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Detailed explanation-1: -Like the empire, the church was ruled by a hierarchy of officials. A hierarchy is an organization with different levels of authority. Leaders of the church were known as the clergy. In the early church, only men were allowed to be members of the clergy.
Detailed explanation-2: -At any time in Roman history, individual Romans knew with certainty that they belonged to a specific social class: Senator, Equestrian, Patrician, Plebeian, Slave, Free. In some cases they were born into that class.
Detailed explanation-3: -Constantine stood out because he became a Christian and unabashedly made Jesus the patron of his army. By 313, just two contenders remained, Constantine and Licinius. The two jointly issued the Edict of Milan, which made Christianity a legal religion and officially ended the persecution.
Detailed explanation-4: -Records of each class were kept, and being wealthy was often not enough to move up through the classes. There were three basic divisions in Roman society: citizens, noncitizens and slaves.