The Persecution of the early Church

Research and write one 7-page research paper on the below topic. 

The Persecution of the early Church

You are required to have at least 4 good sources for this paper. Although you may have some quality internet sources (Wikipedia and/or Blogs etc. are not appropriate sources), you MUST have at least 2 sources that are good scholarly books or journal article.

This paper should be focused and thorough without using first person (I, we, us, etc.). This research paper should have an introduction that includes a clear thesis statement stating what you plan to cover in your paper. This research paper should be properly formatted using current Turabian style (12-point font, 1-inch margin on all sides, title page, table of content, footnote citations, and a bibliography). 

A paper that is not properly formatted will automatically lose 10% of the grade.