The Romans were in charge of Israel at the time of Christ. It was the Romans who crucified Jesus, mainly because the Jewish leaders asked them to. Jesus’ followers lived and preached all over the Ruthless Roman Empire.

The Romans hated the Christian converts, and persecuted them by putting them in prison, torturing them and killing them in horrible ways – such as burning them alive or feeding them to hungry lions.

But around 300 years after Jesus, the Evil Emperor Constantine claimed he had become a Christian! He didn’t get much less evil, and the empire didn’t get much less ruthless – but it’s because of him that most of Europe is Christian today.