Christianity is today the religion with most followers in the world. It’s Church was one of the ruling powers of the Western World during many centuries, and even if it’s not as powerful as it was back them, it still deserves respect and study. Christianity was founded way after the death of Christ, by Paul of Tarsus, between years 30 and 100 AD, and it spread mainly in Greek and Asia Minor. But there is a city that is mainly related to the rise of Christianity and its influence in the world: Rome.
	While the Roman Empire conquered Judea, the ideas of Jesus began to spread around the area, while the apostles worked to pass the teachings of their master throughout Palestine and Syria, but it was only considered a branch of the Jew faith
	Early Christians were persecuted, for they refused to acknowledge any god but their own. They were considered guilty of any problems the Empire faced; for example, when Rome burned down in 64 BC, Emperor Nero blamed the Christians, as shown in the following citation of Tacitus:

"Nero punished a race of men who were hated for their evil practices. These men were called Christians. He got a number of people to confess. On their evidence a number of Christians were convicted and put to death with dreadful cruelty. Some were covered with the skins of wild beasts and left to be eaten by dogs. Others were nailed to the cross. Many were burned alive and set on fire to serve as torches at night."

	But the Romans had problems, since lower classes slowly converted to the new religion that treated them as actual people instead of things, and that promised happiness after death. Slowly, during almost three centuries, the new religion slowly entered the house of patricians and important political figures, and Rome had no choice but to accept the fact that Christianity had finally taken its place among the Empire.
	Things were beginning to change for the Christians: In the April of 311 A.D., the roman emperor Galerius, who had been an important figure in the issue of Christian persecutions, issued an edict called the Edict of Toleration. This edict stopped the persecution of Christians. Two years after the edict was issued another roman emperor legalized Christianity, he was named Constantine.