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875: Jonathan Kennedy | How Pathogens Have Shaped Our World

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The Influence of the Plague of Cyprian on Christianity

In the beginning of the 3rd century AD Christianity was as you say still a really small sect of Judaism it maybe had 100,000 followers out of a population of 70 or 80 million in the empire so something like Sikhism in the US today. In 312 Constantine the Roman Empire converts to Christianity and then a decade later Christianity becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire. There's a big mystery why why did this happen why was Christianity not that popular for a couple hundred years and then very very popular from the middle of the 3 third century onwards.

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