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137- The Christian Emperor

The History of Rome

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The Great Reformation of Constantine

Constantine turned his back on god knows how many millennia of tradition, and henceforth, forbade divination and sacrifice to the gods. Pardon, not compensate, pardon. As if purchasing some bit of land legally at auction could now be considered a crime? He's kidding about this, right? The revolution only went on from there. In a stark rejection of near three centuries of imperial policy, constantine gave the christians pride of place. And it was suddenly the pagans who found themselves merely tolerated,. pagans who were barred from holding public office, and Pagans who found their religious practices banned outright. But more than anything else, in the roman victory in battle

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