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The world 50.

Africa

The Christianity was introduced early in Meroe by a senior official of Queen Judith.
In Abyssinia , the Sabians founded the Kingdom of Aksum ( Axum ).
- In the early ^first century , a ruler of Axum had made an alliance with Candace of Meroe Judith fight against the Romans. At that time, Christianity would have appeared first in the kingdom Judaic and animist Axum thanks to Judith, regent of the kingdom of Axum and Meroe candace. Senior officials have converted to Christianity, but have resumed their old practices after the death of Candace.
Browser Greek Diogenes discovers the Great Lakes region.

Roman Empire

Rome has a million inhabitants.
The emperor Claude adopts Nero.
The Emperor Claudius of Rome hunt "the Jews who agitated at the instigation of Chrestus" ( Suetonius )

Extension of the Roman Empire in 50.

The southern part of the British Isles became a Roman province ( Colchester , Camulodunum).
Founding of Londinium ( London ) between 50 and 60 as the capital of Civitas near a ford across the Thames. She then has a strategic focus and business, before becoming a political center in ^the fourth century.
Finalization of the files on the Rhine.
The military colony of Colonia ( Cologne ) is promoted to the rank of city.
Troops Roman push the Germans on the Rhine. Founding of the colony of Trier in Germany less.
St. Paul founded a church at Corinth (50 - 52 ).
Abuses of the bandit Zealot Eleazar, son of Deinaeus in northern Samaria.
Roman colony of Ptolemais- Akko in Judea.
Herod Agrippa II assigns its rights in the kingdom of Chalcis and receives in exchange the former tetrarchy Philippe plus a portion of the Galilee and Perea.

Asia and Indian subcontinent

The Kushan (Kushan), whose most famous king will Kanishka ^I. ( 127 - 147 ), control the north of India.
Early reign of Kadphises II , King Kushan (end in 78 , or about 90 - 100 ).
Kharavela is carving a kingdom in the Orissa during the second half of the ^first century. It is a great patron of Jainism but we know nothing more about him or his successors.
The Parthian king Gondophares ^I. , of Taxila , would have allowed then martyred Apostle Thomas.

America

In Mexico , Teotihuacan was built according to a geometric grid pattern.

Arts & Cultures

Venus of the Esquiline: statue of Aphrodite, perhaps an idealized portrait of Cleopatra VII of Egypt. Parian Marble , Hellenistic artwork, the ^first century BC. Found in 1874 in Rome Lamiani Horti.

Until 52 , St. Paul evangelized by the Greece and wrote the Epistles to the Thessalonians first and second.
Fourth Style of Roman painting (character and landscape).
Basilica of Porta Maggiore in Rome.

Science & Technology

The distinction between acute and chronic diseases is made by Thessalus Tralles.
In Rome , the plow replaces the plow.
Glass factories in Cologne , which became the main center of the glass empire ⁱⁿ the fourth century.