Church History

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Fall of Rome

FALL OF ROME

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should know that the capital of the Western Empire was the city of Rome.
  2. Students should know the story of St. Leo, bishop of Rome, and Attila the Hun.
  3. Students should know the name of the new capital of the Roman Empire, Constantinople.

 

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Sts. Cyril and Methodius and the Baptism of Russia

ST. CYRIL AND METHODIUS/BAPTISM OF RUS

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should know the names Cyril and Methodius and that they told the people of Rus about Jesus.
  2. Students should know the names of King Vladimir and Queen Olga, the first Christian rulers of Rus.
  3. Students should know that the people of Rus, in what is now Ukraine, spread the gospel far and wide to what is now Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. 

 

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Crusades

THE CRUSADES

 

Objectives:

  1. Students should know the word, crusade, and that these were wars to take the Holy Land from the Moslems.
  2. Students should know that the crusaders did not win the Holy Land for Christians in the end.
  3. Students should know that the crusaders broke into the city of Constantinople and killed its Christian people and stole its treasures.

 

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