Roman Empire
Where each worldview places it
It persecuted Christians, then absorbed them. "The Roman Empire never fell. It just became the Catholic Church"[1]. "The early religion of pagan Rome was but the Babylonish worship"[2].
- Aliases
- pagan Rome
- Controls / directs
- It persecuted Christianity and the Early Christian church, and evolved into the Roman Catholic Church[1]
- Answers to / controlled by
- evolved from Babylon[2]
- Lineage
- Babylon → Rome → Catholic Church; its double-headed eagle passed to the Vatican, the 33rd degree of Freemasonry and Russia[2]
- Dates
- 55–68 AD (Nero) to the 4th century (Constantine)[3]
- Places
- Rome
- Key events
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- Members / notable people
- Author's claims
- Rome "was really ruled by families", the Piso and Arrius banking houses[4].