The early Christians were persecuted by the Romans. Christianity worships a single God who sent his Son to save the world. The Romans worshipped many gods, such as Jupiter, Minerva, Juno, etc. they had a god for emotions, food, battle strategy, marriage, victory, the list goes on. The Christians refused to worship these gods in the temples or take part in sacrifices or celebrations for the gods. The emporer Nero was a great persecutor of Christians, he ended up burning their part of the city. Early Christians were punished by floggings. The problems escalated. The Emperors imposed harder punishments. Christians were burned at the stake or fed to wild animals.
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raise hand in a friendly manner, wave, force a smile, nod and make eye contact for a split-second before purposefully making themselves busy with something else to avoid beginning conversation and real human connection and interaction
First of all, the passage mentions street children by saying "children pitching pennies" and "kicks and cuffs are their daily diet". Also, pollution is touched in this passage as it mentions "summer stenches" which are bad smells that come because of urbanization and the drains that have foul smells (hence they mention "sink"). We also see how neighborhood noises and noisy people from all around the area show up in urbanized areas because of cramped spaces. Hence, quarreling is mentioned here as well as instances of profanity.
