In the Late Antiquity Jews and Christians began to pool their money together to purchase land and build Catacombs. Catacombs can be described as...

a. special combs used in early ritual to signify how devout an individual was.
b. underground tunnels used to hide practicing Jews and Christians from the Romans.
c. underground burial chambers that run for miles and were common during this time so the faithful could adhere to proper burial rituals
d. sacrificial pits used by the Romans to properly bury their dead.


Ans: c. underground burial chambers that run for miles and were common during this time so the faithful could adhere to proper burial rituals

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