Question: When did Christianity become the official religion of the regime Nasser's country became a colony of in the 1st century BC?

<P0-S0> following the defeat of the boers in the anglo - boer or south african war (1899 -- 1902), the union of south africa was created as a dominion of the british empire in terms of the south africa act 1909, which amalgamated the four previously separate british colonies: cape colony, natal colony, transvaal colony and orange river colony. <P0-S1> the country became a self - governing nation state within the british empire, in 1934 following enactment of the status of the union act. <P0-S2> the dominion came to an end on 31 may 1961 as the consequence of a 1960 referendum, which legitimised the country becoming a sovereign state named republic of south africa. <P0-S3> a republican constitution was adopted. <SEP> <P1-S0> Constantine's decision to cease the persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire was a turning point for early Christianity, sometimes referred to as the Triumph of the Church, the Peace of the Church or the Constantinian shift. <P1-S1> In 313, Constantine and Licinius issued the Edict of Milan decriminalizing Christian worship. <P1-S2> The emperor became a great patron of the Church and set a precedent for the position of the Christian emperor within the Church and the notion of orthodoxy, Christendom, ecumenical councils, and the state church of the Roman Empire declared by edict in 380. <P1-S3> He is revered as a saint and isapostolos in the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, and various Eastern Catholic Churches for his example as a ``Christian monarch. '' <SEP> <P2-S0> In 332 BC, Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great conquered Egypt as he toppled the Achaemenids and established the Hellenistic Ptolemaic Kingdom, whose first ruler was one of Alexander's former generals, Ptolemy I Soter. <P2-S1> The Ptolemies had to fight native rebellions and were involved in foreign and civil wars that led to the decline of the kingdom and its final annexation by Rome. <P2-S2> The death of Cleopatra ended the nominal independence of Egypt resulting in Egypt becoming one of the provinces of the Roman Empire. <SEP> <P3-S0> Yugoslavia had a liberal travel policy permitting foreigners to freely travel through the country and its citizens to travel worldwide, whereas it was limited by most Communist countries. <P3-S1> A number[quantify] of Yugoslav citizens worked throughout Western Europe. <P3-S2> Tito met many world leaders during his rule, such as Soviet rulers Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev and Leonid Brezhnev; Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, Indian politicians Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi; British Prime Ministers Winston Churchill, James Callaghan and Margaret Thatcher; U.S. Presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter; other political leaders, dignitaries and heads of state that Tito met at least once in his lifetime included Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Yasser Arafat, Willy Brandt, Helmut Schmidt, Georges Pompidou, Queen Elizabeth II, Hua Guofeng, Kim Il Sung, Sukarno, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Suharto, Idi Amin, Haile Selassie, Kenneth Kaunda, Gaddafi, Erich Honecker, Nicolae Ceaușescu, János Kádár and Urho Kekkonen. <P3-S3> He also met numerous celebrities. <SEP> <P4-S0> armenia is a unitary, multi-party, democratic nation-state with an ancient cultural heritage. <P4-S1> urartu was established in 860 bc and by the 6th century bc it was replaced by the satrapy of armenia. <P4-S2> in the 1st century bc the kingdom of armenia reached its height under tigranes the great. <P4-S3> armenia became the first state in the world to adopt christianity as its official religion. <P4-S4> in between the late 3rd century to early years of the 4th century, the state became the first christian nation. <P4-S5> the official date of state adoption of christianity is 301 ad. <P4-S6> the ancient armenian kingdom was split between the byzantine and sasanian empires around the early 5th century.