Person4 BC – AD 30

Jesus

Also called: Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth

The central figure of Christianity, who preached God’s love and salvation in Roman-ruled Palestine and was crucified in Jerusalem around AD 30

He grew up in Nazareth in Galilee and, after being baptised by John the Baptist around the age of thirty, taught throughout Galilee. Keeping company with the poor and with those condemned as sinners, he proclaimed that the kingdom of God was at hand. He gathered twelve disciples and taught love and forgiveness through the Sermon on the Mount and many parables. After entering Jerusalem he was arrested and crucified on the sentence of the Roman governor Pontius Pilate. His life is told in the four Gospels of the New Testament.

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AD 30 – AD 311Rise and Spread of Christianityleader
In Roman-ruled Palestine Jesus preached God’s love and salvation. Spread across the empire by Paul and others, Christianity was long persecuted for refusing to worship the emperor.

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Paul the Apostle
Apostle who carried the Christian gospel to non-Jews across the Mediterranean; his letters form part of the New Testament

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Greece and Rome2000 BC – AD 476
From the Aegean civilisation to the fall of the Western Roman Empire — the classical civilisation built by the democracy of the polis and the Roman republic and empire