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Early Christians continued to suffer sporadic persecutions. However, large-scale persecutions began in the year 64 when Nero blamed them for the Great Fire of Rome earlier that year. The oppression of Christians was only periodic until the middle of the first century. This opened the way to the persecutions of Christians for disobedience to the emperor, as they refused to worship the state pantheon. Around the year 98, Nerva decreed that Christians did not have to pay the annual tax upon the Jews, effectively recognizing them as a distinct religion. Christians were initially identified with the Jewish religion by the Romans, but as they became more distinct, Christianity became a problem for Roman rulers. Differentiate Early Christian sculpture from earlier Roman sculptural traditionsīy the early years of Christianity (first century), Judaism had been legalized through a compromise with the Roman state over two centuries.Explain what replaced the Classical temple in Early Christian architecture and why it evolved.Discuss the influence of Greco-Roman culture on the development of early Christian art.Define key terms related to early Christian art.
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Identify and describe the form, content, and context of key early Christian works.