Unit 2
Byzantine SAQ - 5 pts.
Alfred Andrea & James Overfield - The Human Record: Sources of Global History (2005)
“Some eighteenth-century European historians considered Byzantine civilization merely
unoriginal and degenerate fossilization of late antiquity, but nothing could be further from the
truth.”
1A. Identify and Explain ONE historical example that would support the statement above.
1B. Identify and Explain ONE historical example that would contradict the statement above
1C. Analyze and discuss at least ONE reason for the collapse of the Byzantine Empire.
Byzantine Document Analysis - 5 pts.
Choose ONE of the following documents and complete a Document Analysis on the document
Option 1) - De Administrando Imperio - Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus pg. 192-195
Option 2) - Povest' Vremennykh Let: The Russian Primary Chronicle - 255- 258