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>> constantine was a great military commander. and when it was his turn to become a junior emperor, he decided to fight his competition. >> constantine, the payingan commander declares woar on the commander of the east to decide who will become emperor of rome. and the day before the battle, he has a startling vision. >> he looks up and he sees the sign of the cross. >> and he thought it was a promise from jesus, that he would win the battle. >> constantine does win the battle. and the new emperor is forever changed by his vision. >> he decides he's going to be a christian. >> one of his first...

Rulers became christian. there was no feeling that there should be a separation between church and state. church and state worked together. >> to honor his new-found faith, constantine made some spectacular building projects in christ's name throughout the empire. among the most famous of them, the church of the holy accept will you kerr. >> the slab on the floor is the place where they say jesus was originally buried. >> but almost as soon as christians are free from roman persecution, they begin fighting with each other. >> the biggest problem during this time was doctorate. in some people's...

Acts as the first christian emperor of rome is to issue the edict of milan. this not only makes christianity legal, but favored. >> this is a big one. for the first time, a roman emperor decided to ally with the church. that meantime the whole of the known world was at the disposal of the church. >> as constantine moves christianity from outlaw to exalted, church and state become intertwined. >> constantine saw in christianity a way of uniting the empire. a new ideology that would give everybody the same god, the same moral values. >> constantine, by legalizing christianity, opened up a space ...

He conquered it, but it was crumbling. >> he was angry, and he said, look, these things you're quarreling about are just trivial. i stopped the persecutions, you should be grateful. so he called a council to unify the church. >> the council of nicaea is the first time you bring all of the bishops together and have them start to talk to each other. >> the council marks the first meeting of senior church leaders. the foundation of the pope's college of cardinals today. >> the bishops were commissioned to write what a christian should believe. >> constantine manages to get the bishops to agree on...

Fully human and fully divine. >> you sign it, and you're part of us. and if you don't, you're ex communicated, you're out. you'll probably go to hell. so this became the battling cry for catholics throughout the world. >> with the church unified after nicaea, constantine looks to further stabilize the foundation of his empire. he establishes a second hub of church power in the east. he names the new capital after himself. and calls it constantinoble. >> there is a bit of back and forth. >> the christians in the east tend to look at the christians in the west as just being barbarians. they woul...