Friday, October 2, 2009

Study Guide: Byzantine Empire

Homework for Chapter 13 is in the post below this!

Byzantine Empire Quiz:

Period 8: Monday, Oct. 5
Period 7: Tuesday, Oct. 6

There is a Castle Learning Practice available. If you did not get it, please email me so that it gets sent to you.

Textbook:

Chapter 11, Section 1 & 2

Vocabulary:

Byzantine Empire
Constantinople/ Istanbul
Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Roman Catholicism
Pope
Patriach
Vladimir
Twelve Tables
Justinian's Code
Hagia Sofia
Procopius
Byzantine Russia (Kievian)
Byzantine Eastern Europe
Cryrillic
Greco-Roman
First, "Second", "Third" Rome

Notes:

Byzantines in Eastern Europe and Russia

Classwork:

Packet on Byzantine Empire
Reading on Hagia Sofia


Short Answer Questions:

1. What is the difference between a Pope and a Patriarch?

2. How did Justinain strengthen his role as leader of the Byzantine Empire?

3. In what ways was Procopius a biased historian?

4. How and what themes are depicted in Byzantine artwork?

5. What caused the divide in the Christian religion under the Byzantine Empire?

6. How did the Byzantine's help to preserve Greco-Roman culture?

7. How did Vladimir's conversion to Christianity affect Kiev?

8. What was Justinian's Code?