Christianity began in the first century AD in Judea as a small Jewish group, and quickly spread in the next few centuries throughout the Middle East, the Roman Empire and its settlements in Roman North Africa, including the Church of Carthage, despite the persecution that the emperors of Rome practiced against the followers of this religion, but since the fourth century It became the religion of the empire and acquired Greek and Roman culture. Armenia was the first country to adopt Christianity as the official religion in 301, followed by Georgia in 319, Ethiopia in 325 and the Roman Empire in 380.
