Byzantine Review and Essay Practice

1. Byzantine Empire
Review

2. The Byzantine Empire - changes

4. Byzantine Empire
• Which regions of the world did Byzantium
influence?
• Which groups attacked/took territory from the
Byzantine Empire and weakened it in this period?
• What learning did the Byzantine Empire preserve?

5. Byzantine Empire
• What were the continuities between Roman
Empire and the Byzantine Empire?

6. Byzantine Empire
• What were the differences between
Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholic
Christianity?

7. Essay Practice
Comparative
• Analyze similarities and differences in how TWO of the
following empires used religion to govern before 1450.
– Byzantine Empire
– Islamic Caliphates
– Mauryan/Gupta Empires

8. Essay Practice
Comparative
• Analyze similarities and differences in how TWO of the
following empires used religion to govern before 1450.
– Byzantine Empire
– Islamic Caliphates
– Mauryan/Gupta Empires
• Political / Religious Rulers?
• Laws – Religious?

9. Essay Practice
Continuity and Change Over Time
• Analyze how political transformations contributed to
continuities and changes in the cultures of the Mediterranean
region during the period circa 200 C.E. to 1000 C.E.

10. Essay Practice
Continuity and Change Over Time
• Analyze how political transformations contributed to
continuities and changes in the cultures of the Mediterranean
region during the period circa 200 C.E. to 1000 C.E.
POLITICAL TRANSFORMATIONS
• Fall of Roman Empire 400s
• Rise of Islam 600s- 700
• Byzantine Empire 300s

11. Essay Practice
Comparative
• Analyze similarities and
differences in how TWO of
the following empires used
religion to govern before
1450.
– Byzantine Empire
– Islamic Caliphates
– Mauryan/Gupta Empires
Change Over Time
• Analyze how political
transformations contributed
to continuities and changes
in the cultures of the
Mediterranean region
during the period circa 200
C.E. to 1000 C.E.

12. Byzantine Empire
• How was the Byzantine Empire like Tang and
Song China politically? How was it different?
• How was the Byzantine Empire like Islamic
civilization under the Umayyads and
Abbasids? How was it different?

13. COMPARE
• Analyze the similarities and differences in
the culture of the Byzantine Empire and the
Islamic Empire under the Umayyads and
Abbasids in the 8th to 12th centuries.