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Mr. Tyree
Questions-Chapter 9
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1) Who founded Byzantium?
2) What regions did it cover?
3) Who made Greek the official language?
4) What was the attitude towards Latin?
5) Why was it important that the language of the empire was Greek?
6) What various peoples did they draw knowledge from?
7) What emperor tried to rebuild the empire in 533? What did he do?
8) How did his wife Theodore help him rule?
9) List his positive contributions:
10) Why did they try to capture North Africa and Italy?
11) What invaders took territory from the Byzantine Empire?
12) What threat had to be withstood in the 7th century?
13) What was Greek Fire?
14) What problems were created by the wars with the Arabs?
15) What Slavic people caused the most trouble?
16) What was the title taken by Slavic rulers?
17) What emperor defeated the Bulgarians in 1014?
18) In what ways was the Byzantine political system similar to that of China?
19) How did the Byzantine bureaucracy work?
20) How were troops recruited and paid?
21) How did the government control the economy?
22) What was the center of Byzantine social life?
23) What was an icon?
24) What was the iconoclast?
25) What differences led to the split between the eastern and western Catholic
churches?
26) Why was the declaration of Charlemagne as Roman emperor a problem?
27) What happened in 1054 and what caused it? Bonus-what was this called?
28) What defeat in 1071 began the gradual decline of the empire?
29) What parts of the empire began to break away?
30) What crusade became an attack on the Byzantine Empire?
31) When did the empire finally fall?
32) What 2 Orthodox missionaries helped spread Christianity into Eastern Europe?
33) What did they create to help the spread of religion?
34) In what other ways did this influence the region?
35) What city was the center of the beginning of the Russian state?
36) What legendary figure is thought to have founded the city?
37) What large empire was this city-state influenced by?
38) What prince converted the region to Christianity?
39) Why did he choose the Orthodox faith over the Roman Catholic faith?
40) Why were Russian princes attracted to Byzantine practices?
41) What is an icon?
42) What invaders brought down Kiev?
43) What was the Russian name for these invaders?
44) How long did the Mongols have control over Russia?
45) How might Mongol control have actually aided the development of Russia?
46) What nickname was given to the city of Moscow after the fall of Constantinople
in 1453? What did this say about Russian attitudes towards the outside world?
Also do the questions found on pages 207 and 210.