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Nero And His Inhumane Torture of The Christians In Rome.
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Danielle McManus December 5, 2003 Nero And His Inhumane Torture of The Christians In Rome The persecution of Christians by the Roman emperors seems rather strange, when one considers their inoffensive ways of faith and worship. When one contemplates the skepticism that prevailed among the pagans, this harshness seems all the more remarkable. Nero, a man with light blue eyes, a thick neck, a protruding stomach, and spindly legs, was a crazed and cruel emperor, a pleasure-driven man who ruled the world by whim and fear. It just goes to show the difference an upbringing makes. Nero was born in Antium on December 15, AD 37. His mother, the plotting Agrippina, managed to convince her husband Claudius to adopt her son Nero and put him, ahead of Claudius's own son, first in line for the throne. Maternal concern not satisfied, she then murdered Claudius, and Nero ruled the world at age seventeen. Nero believed...
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