Question: When did Christianity become official religion of the empire which colonized Nehesy's country 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> 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. <P3-S1> the country became a self - governing nation state within the british empire, in 1934 following enactment of the status of the union act. <P3-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. <P3-S3> a republican constitution was adopted. <SEP> <P4-S0> Nehesy Aasehre (Nehesi) was a ruler of Lower Egypt during the fragmented Second Intermediate Period. <P4-S1> He is placed by most scholars into the early 14th Dynasty, as either the second or the sixth pharaoh of this dynasty. <P4-S2> As such he is considered to have reigned for a short time c. 1705 BC and would have ruled from Avaris over the eastern Nile Delta. <P4-S3> Recent evidence makes it possible that a second person with this name, a son of a Hyksos king, lived at a slightly later time during the late 15th Dynasty c. 1580 BC. <P4-S4> It is possible that most of the artefacts attributed to the king Nehesy mentioned in the Turin canon, in fact belong to this Hyksos prince.