Study Guide – Ch 9, 10, 15 [Post-Classical Europe]
Byzantine Empire
-Years of Byzantine Empire’s existence
-Justinian’s rule (early 500s CE)
-Successes? Role of Theodora?
-Byzantine military defense strategies
-In what ways were the Byzantine and Chinese
bureaucracies similar?
-Cultural origins & traditions of the Byzantine
Empire
-Greek language
-Constantinople (only major urbanized center
for the empire) – Why important?
-In what ways did the Byzantine Empire
influence the development of Kievan Rus
(Russia)?
-Cyril & Methodius – impact upon Slavic people
of Eastern Europe?
-Features of the Orthodox Church (vs. Roman
Catholicism)
-Causes of Roman Catholic/Orthodox
schism in 1054 CE?
- What is a religious schism?
-What is iconoclasm? View of icons in
the East and the
West?
-political & economic stability of early
Byzantines vs. early instability in W.Europe
(trend reverses after c1200 CE)
-How were Byzantine soldiers rewarded for
service to the emperor?
-Results of the Fourth Crusade (1204 CE)?
-Byzantine Economy – Trade routes? Imports?
Exports?
-Causes of Byzantine decline & effects on
peasant population
-order of Muslim conquests?
[Umayyads, Abbasids, Seljuk
Turks, Ottoman Turkss]
-1453 = Constantinople conquered by
Ottoman Turks
Russia
-Role of Vikings in early Russian history?
-1st king of the Kievan Rus? Which prince
developed Russia’s 1st legal code?
-How did Kiev develop?
-Impacts of Mongol (Tatar/Golden Horde)
conquests in 1200s and 1300s?
-Why did Grand Prince Vladimir I of the Rus
adopt Christianity? (Multiple reasons)
-Examples of Byzantine cultural diffusion to
Russia?
Western Europe
-Describe and explain the feudal hierarchy &
manorialism
-Advancements made in agricultural production
& their effects on population?
-Describe changes in the Western European economy
as the post-classical era progressed (c600 CE – c1000
CE VS c1000 CE – c1450 CE)
-Results of the improved economy after c1000
CE?
-Describe the roles of the new banking industry
and guilds
-What was the Hanseatic League?
-What alterations were made in Christianity
during this era? Role of Clovis? Syncretism?
-What was the Holy Roman Empire and what
kept it weak?
-What were the years of the Crusades?
Cultural & economic impacts upon W.Europe?
-Role of the Catholic Church in W.Europe?
Gothic architecture?
-Christianity & Buddhism encouraged
monasticism. Roles of Western European
monastics, (especially monks)?
-What was taught at Medieval W.European
univerisities?
-What is scholasticism? Significance of
Thomas Aquinas?
-Social, political, and economic effects of the
Black Death (Bubonic Plague) on Western
Europe?
-What Italian city-state was the most
economically and culturally powerful by the
early 1400s?
-How did introduction of new methods of
warfare impact politics and society in W.
Europe by the late post-classical era?
-Causes of social, political, and economic crises
in the 1300s?
Eurasia at the end of the Post-Classical Era
-Years of Ming dynasty’s Zheng He
expeditions?
-Motivations for Ming expeditions? Reasons for
cancellation of Ming expeditions?
-What happened to Arab trade after 1100?
-Describe Renaissance culture. Where did it
begin?
-Iberian Peninsula’s (Spain & Portugal) political
developments in the 1400s?
-How did Mongol decline by the late 1300s
impact European trade?
-In the 1400s, how did W.Europeans attempt to
avoid Ottomans in the Middle East while still
obtaining Asia’s luxury goods?