In 313 CE, Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan. What effect did this law have?

A. It restricted the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire by encouraging persecution of religious minorities.

B. It promoted the spread of Christianity by uniting the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire.

C. It promoted the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire by allowing people to worship freely.

D. It restricted the spread of Christianity by dividing Christians into followers of Roman Catholicism and followers of Eastern Orthodoxy.

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Jonas Carr

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28 August, 12:09

In 313 CE, Constantine the Great issued the Edict of Milan. What effect did this law have?

A. It restricted the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire by encouraging persecution of religious minorities.

B. It promoted the spread of Christianity by uniting the eastern and western parts of the Roman Empire.

C. It promoted the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire by allowing people to worship freely.

D. It restricted the spread of Christianity by dividing Christians into followers of Roman Catholicism and followers of Eastern Orthodoxy.

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Lorena Craig · Answer 1

C. It promoted the spread of Christianity across the Roman Empire by allowing people to worship freely. This was largely done do to both mounting internal pressures from a growing christian minority despite persecution and also possibly do to Constantine believing he was the benefactor of the christian God's favor. These two factors are very compelling reasons for Constantine's edict of Milan.