30–67 · Middle East · Faith
Pentecost, missionary travel and house churches carried the Christian message from Jerusalem through Asia Minor, Greece and Rome.
Atlas dossier · Christian AgeFree device narration · synchronized English captions · transcript available
Why it matters
‘Ye shall be witnesses unto me… unto the uttermost part of the earth.’ — Acts 1:8 (KJV)
Pentecost, missionary travel and house churches carried the Christian message from Jerusalem through Asia Minor, Greece and Rome.
Peter · Paul · James · John · Priscilla · Aquila
A small Jewish movement became a transregional faith in dialogue and conflict with Jewish, Greek and Roman worlds.
Interpretation note
This dossier distinguishes the event’s basic chronology from later arguments about meaning, responsibility and legacy. When comparing religious, national, Indigenous or scholarly interpretations, consult the primary and institutional sources above alongside peer-reviewed historical work.
Elsewhere in the world
64–311 · EuropeChristian persecution before ConstantinePersecution varied by place and period, from Nero’s violence at Rome to empire-wide coercion under Decius and Diocletian.
27 BC–180 · EuropePax RomanaImperial rule, roads, ports, law and common commercial languages connected the Mediterranean world into which Jesus and the apostles were born.
100–940 · AfricaKingdom of AksumAksum linked the African interior, Red Sea and Indian Ocean, minted coinage and adopted Christianity in the fourth century.