Constantine was born in the year 272 AD in the city Nisus. He also had an excellent education, learning and reading Latin and Greek. Constantine was involved in the Roman army for several years. Eventually ran away to join his father in Gaul in the western Roman empire. He fought alongside his farther for several years. The first Roman emperor to claim conversion to Christianity, Constantine played a powerful role in the edict of Milan in 313 AD, which declared rights for Christians in the Roman times. When his father was ill he named Constantine as emperor, he then ruled Britain, Gaul and Spain. He stopped the of the Christians in his erea. As Constantine approached Rome in 312 AD, he had reasons to worry. His army was half the ream, his army