The Roman EmpireSocial Studies

Indicator 2

Boston International School

The Romans

The Big Idea

Augustus was a strong skilled leader who guided the roman peace.

Main Ideas• Augustus issued decrees that gave Roman citizenship to

those who lived in the provinces.• The early church characteristics separation from the world,

unconditional love, and childlike obedience to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

Main Idea 1:Augustus issued decrees that gave Roman citizenship to those who lived in the provinces.

• Who was Augustus?

He was a strong leader like his great uncle Julius Caesar.

• Beginning with his rule, Rome was to enjoy a Roman peace, this peace lasted for more than 200 years-from 27 B.C.

• He issued decrees that gave Roman citizenship to those who lived in the provinces. It was like an especial protection:

For example: One law said that citizens could not be forced to speak against themselves in the law courts.

Roman empire domain

• The Romans were the first to take a census, or a count of a country´s people

• Tiber river was the forum, a public place where people could met for business or recreation.

• A gladiator was a slave or a prisoner who fought, often to the death, for the entertainment of the citizens.

Roman Empire under Augustus government

• All across the empire the Romans also built aqueducts, a system of bridges and canals used to carry water to a city.

Main Idea 2: The early church

The three distinguishing marks of the early church were:

1. Separation from the world.

2. Unconditional love.

3. Childlike obedience to the teachings of Jesus Christ.

• 1. Separation from the world: "No one can serve two masters," declared Jesus to his disciples (Matt. 6:24). We can not do the things or sins of the out world. We need to live our own costums in Jesus.

• 2. Unconditional love:

• The love of the early Christians wasn't limited simply to their fellow believers. Christians also lovingly helped non-believers: the poor, the orphans, the elderly, the sick, the shipwrecked—even their persecutors. Jesus had said, “Love your enemies ... and pray for those who spitefully use you and persecute you” (Matt. 5:44). 

• 3. Childlike obedience to the teachings of Jesus Christ:

• To the early Christian, trusting God meant more than a teary-eyed testimony about “the time I came to trust the Lord.” It meant believing that even if obedience to God entailed great suffering, God was trustworthy to bring a person through it.

• 3. Childlike obedience to the teachings of Jesus Christ:

• To the early Christian, trusting God meant more than a teary-eyed testimony about “the time I came to trust the Lord.” It meant believing that even if obedience to God entailed great suffering, God was trustworthy to bring a person through it.

• One distinguishing mark of the early Christians was their childlike, literal obedience to the teachings of Jesus and the apostles. They didn't feel they had to understand the reason for a commandment before they would obey it.