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Them his agent. he treated them like members of his administration. so now he would take the bishop of egypt and the bishop of jerusalem, the bishop of athens and state power would go through them. >> bishops become important people in the legal community if people have disputes with each other, they are as likely to go to a bishop to get it sorted out. >> you had to go to him to get the food supply. that made him enormously wealthy, and enormously influential. >> constantine gives romans a political and financial incentive to convert to christianity. he gives christians tax breaks and makes c...

Acc . under constantine and the bishop of rome, christianity has gone from an outlawed sect to the ruling force of the western world. >> constantine was both the head of the state and he was the head of the church. he was still a roman, and in the old roman religion, the emperor was also the chief priest. constantine definitely took that approach to his faith rather than, you know, what we would now think of as a separation of powers. >> but despite christianity's new political advantage, after centuries of being persecuted for not believing in the roman gods, christians are now killing each...

♪ for over 100 years following consta constantine's death, rome is under attack by payingans from the north. the barbarians overthrow the last emperor of rome. the eternal city, once home to 2 million people, is reduced to less than 30,000. once the political and spiritual center of the empire, rome is now almost abandoned and stays that way for nearly 200 years. >> rome in the 6th century was muddier and messier and perhaps less efficiently governed than it had been in the time of constantine.

>> there's a tribal aspect to it, that our tribe is being attacked. just as we still do today, you know, 9/11. someone attacks the united states. people are lined up at induction centers to go off and fight. >> when he calls for the first crusade, pope urban ii solidifies his role as a world power. the pope is no longer just a spiritual guide. but a commander of the helm of an army. a zealous fleet of nearly 40,000 starts the long march east towards jerusalem. >> the crusades were first and foremost an act of piety. the crusades are the only case i know of in human history in which you have th...