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Did christianity cause wars between people, during the Greco-Roman times?

i'm doing an assignment for AP* world history, and I can't find anything relating to this. Please help :)

Gawd, what did i get myself into? wo00t Pientka!

Update:

Thanks sam, i needed a specific war or ramage of crazy christians, but thanks though :)

also i'm probably won't be passing that AP* exam :C

Update 2:

Again for another somewhat good answer, but any specific one? i can't just write on my paper what you just said, she'll laugh :D

Update 3:

thanks for your help :)

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Well considering that Christianity didn't even exist during the "Greco" part, no. Christians were at times persecuted, at times tolerated during the Roman empire. They didn't become a strong religion for a few hundred years after Christ's death, and I don't think that the religion can be credited with any wars during that period. Certainly Christianity has been incredibly violant throughout much of its history, but I think it would only be fair to say it was the cause of wars from perhaps the early 8th century onwards. There were some pretty nasty quarrels between Christians and pagans during the 5th and 6th centuries, but the religion itself didn't cause those problems.

  • 1 decade ago

    haha im in AP Euro too i love it so far, while we didn't talk to much about wars because of Christianity in Greco-Roman times, just from previous history i would say yes, as the Christians were heavily persecuted by the romans so maybe it causes internal strife more so than full out wars, but then again you could argue that Christians were a large part of the Roman Empire falling as it weakened by the ramapaging pissed off Christians, anyways hope this helped

    Good Luck on May 6th

    Source(s): Ap Euro :)
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes Christians were persecuted early on in the Roman empire. Later after the emperor converted non-christians were persecuted.

    Later in Byzantine times (the eastern roman empire after the west fell) there were several wars between different sects of Christianity that fought over specific details and interpretations of the faith.

    Source(s): Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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