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persecuted Christians

supported Christianity

Constantine

Diocletian

Nero

Theodosius

persecuted Christians

Diocletian

Nero

Theodosius

Supported Christians

Constantine

Explanation:

Constantine the great was the first emperor to support the Christianity and made it the official religion of the empire. His reforms ensured the survival of the eastern roman empire and laid the foundation for the medieval Christian culture.

All Diocletian, Nero and Theodosius emperors were hostile towards the then new religious ideology christianity and saw it as a threat to the rome's survival and it's old traditional culture. Many people. who adhered to Christianity were persecuted at the orders of these emperors. However, emperor Diocletian could be viewed as an effective ruler who stabilised the Roman economy, society and military during the 3rd century's crisis.

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Explanation:

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Constantine - supported Christianity

Constantine I, byname Constantine the Great, the first Roman emperor to profess Christianity. He not only initiated the evolution of the empire into a Christian state but also provided the impulse for a distinctively Christian culture that prepared the way for the growth of Byzantine and Western medieval culture.

Diocletian - persecuted Christians

Diocletian, original name Diocles, Roman emperor who restored efficient government to the empire after the near anarchy of the 3rd century. His reorganization of the fiscal, administrative, and military machinery of the empire laid the foundation for the Byzantine Empire in the East and temporarily shored up the decaying empire in the West. His reign is also noted for the last great persecution of the Christians.

Nero - persecuted Christians

Nero himself blamed the fire on an obscure new Jewish religious sect called the Christians, whom he indiscriminately and mercilessly crucified. During gladiator matches he would feed Christians to lions, and he often lit his garden parties with the burning carcasses of Christian human torches

Theodosius - persecuted Christians

Christian persecution of paganism under Theodosius I. The Persecution of paganism under Theodosius I began in 381, after the first couple of years of his reign as co-emperor in the eastern part of the Roman Empire.