Historians still wonder why Emperor Constantine decided to be baptized on his deathbed, converting him to Christianity minutes before his death, but his decision forever changed the destiny of Christianity. In the Roman Empire, the only option was belief in Greco-Roman gods, such as Apollo. Those who believed in Christianity were victims of their beliefs, often killed, and were considered martyrs. However, after Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, he inspired more people to believe in Jesus Christ. Christianity became the foundation of Byzantine culture and established order and control in the empire until its collapse in the 15th century. After the fall of the Roman Empire, a new empire, the Byzantine Empire, arose from the eastern half of Byzantium. Byzantium was located partly along the strait between the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea. It occupied the tip of a small peninsula, with a body of water to the south called the Sea of ​​Marmara, which led to a passage called the Bosphorus. The site that Constantine chose as his new capital was a city called ...