Persecution of Christians by the Romans facilitated the rapid growth and spread of Christianity.
In the first three centuries, there was a lot of persecution of the Christian Church by Roman authorities. This ended up having a significant historical effect in that many Christians fled far and wide in the old world and wherever they went they preached the gospel of Christ.
About 12 emperors of Rome in the period 30 t0 311AD went out of their way to persecute Christians, and it was in this periods that Christianity spread widest.
The correct answer is C.
Both revolutions were triggered due to a bad financial situation that led to the increase in the tax burden that mostly affected the unprivileged social classes. From this point onwards, the two revolutions developed based on the Enlightment principles as the unpriveleged claimed for decision power.
The Enlightenment philosophers, such as Locke, Monstequieu or Rosseau. introduced ideas that challenged, and ended up derrocating, the power structures of the Old Regime. They promoted reason and the scientific method over religious dogmatism and superstititions.
The main principles developed were the following: definition of bills of citizens' rights, social contract (citizens electing political representatives to create goverments through suffrage, in opposition to the prevailing absolute monarchies), and the division of the powers of the state in order to avoid excessive power accumulation in certain sectors, and risks of authoritarism.
The people of the United States
Answer: e. Exposed US for spying on the USSR & lying about it at the highest levels of our government
Explanation:
The U-2 Spy Plane Incident happened in May 1960 when the Soviet Union captured American pilot Francis Gary Powers after shooting down his U-2 spy plane which was being used by the US to gather information about the Soviet Union's nuclear programme.
The Soviets did not initially say that they had captured the pilot so the US lied about the incident and said it was a weather plane that had flown off-course. The Soviets then revealed that they had Powers in custody at which point the US relented and took responsibility.
