"Is this the end of Rico?"

[metalman]

Only when the state church of Rome (and it's top official the Pontifex Maximus/Emperor Constantine) adopted Christianity as the official religion of the empire did it start to settle into something like Catholicism (and they had to do an awful lot of persecution of those "other" Christians to achieve that homogeneity) . Of course Catholicism was an offshoot of the original Christianity of Constantine who had set up shop in Byzantium, changed the name to Constantinople (now Istanbul) and propagated the Orthodox version of Christianity while the empire split and the Romans got a new emperor who devolved the title Pontifex Maximus to a subordinate.

312 AD

 

[metalman]

The Roman solution to problems, was violence.

Violence and some pretty cool engineering

The Roman way of suppressing insurgents was "creating a desert and calling it peace”