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- To the Romans Christianity was a huge threat because of its monotheistic views (it was actually considered a crime in ancient Rome)
- The first recorded official persecution of Christians on behalf of the Roman Empire was in 64 CE which was during the reign of Nero that Peter and Paul were martyred in Rome

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- When Rome took over they took many Greeks as slaves
- Most of Roman education was based on Greek writing; so the children of Rome basically learned from the Greeks
- One of the most important influences that Greece had on Rome was the Democratic Government

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- the Hellenistic period is the period of ancient Greek and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BCE and the emergence of the Roman Empire
- often was considered to be a period of transition
- referred to as the decadence or degeneration of Greece compared to the Classical era.

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- a 200 year period lasting from the 5th through the 4th centuries
- most of modern Western politics, artistic thought, such as architecture, scientific thought, literature, and philosophy derives from this period of Greek history

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- Mycenae was one of the most important places in Greece
- First Greek state
- Formed the earliest form of writing