"In what ways did Christianity represent a departure from the ideals and practices of ancient Greece and Rome?"
Christianity represented a departure in more ways than one. Among them were how the Christians looked down on suicide, but it was not always looked down upon in the time of ancient Greece and Rome.
They also looked down on the gladiatorial battles. This is no surprise since the battles went against practically everything that the Christians stood for. The Christian teachings are very clear that murder is a horrible sin, and murder is exactly what the gladiatorial battles were.
There were absolutely other things that the Christians departed from, but these are a few of them to give you an idea.
"Discuss the relationship between Rome and the Visigoths."
The relationship between Rome and the "Barbarian" people called the Visigoths was extremely interesting! I will start off with the Huns' pursuit of the Visigoths.
One of the more warlike "Barbarian" peoples called the Huns, were regularly searching after the Visigoths. The Visigoths as you can imagine were quite frightened by the Huns, and they begged Rome to allow them to settle there. They were eventually allowed, but although out of the way of the Huns' wrath, they were now being subjected to quite detestable treatment by the Romans.
They were barely given enough food to live off of, nor were they given the land that they had been told that they would receive. Of course the Visigoths were enraged because of this, and they decided to do what most any people would do. They revolted. After years of fighting, the Romans knew that they must negotiate with the Visigoths, so that is just what they did.
That about sums up the fascinating relationship between Rome and the Visigoths.
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