AP World History Assignments

Chapter 13: The Commonwealth of Byzantium

After reading Chapter 13, you will be able to:

Identify the religious, political, and economic characteristics of the Byzantine Empire

Identify geographical boundaries of the Byzantine Empire throughout the 6th to 12th centuries

Explain the importance of Corpus iuris civilis both within and beyond the Byzantine Empire

Explain the characteristics of Caesaropapism and how it differed from imperial rule of Rome

Explain the influence of Greek Othodox religion in eastern Europe and Russia

Explain the influence of Classical Greece on Byzantine thought

Chapter 13: The Commonwealth of Byzantium

On provided maps under Downloads tab, locate the following places:

Balkan Peninsula
Egypt
Constantinople
Alexandria
Kiev
Mediterranean Sea, Black Sea, Red Sea, Caspian SEa
Bosporus Strait and Dardanelles
Anatolian Peninsula / Anatolia
Sasanid Empire
Damascus
Rome



Bulgaria
Danube River
Czechoslovakia
Slovakia
Hungary
Knieper (Dnieper) River










Chapter 13: The Commonwealth of Byzantium

As you read Chapter 13, take notes on the following terms and concepts: Who, what, where, why, when, how, so what?

1. Byzantine commonwealth
2. Justinian (527-565 C.E.)
3. Theodora
4. Church of Hagia Sophia
5. Corpus iuris civilis (Body of Civil Law)
6. Belisarius (533 C.E.), Italy, Sicily, northwestern Africa, southern Spain
7. Ravenna (p. 322)
8. Greek fire
9. theme system (pp. 323-324; 336)
10. Basil II (976-1025 C.E.)
11. Balkans
12. Bulgars
13. Charlemagne (800 C.E.)
14. Otto of Saxony (962 C.E.)
15. Liudprand (p. 325)















































 

 

16. imperial breadbasket
17. principal source of wealth
18. sharecropping (p. 326)
19. Why did concentration  of land work against the financial interests of the central government?
20. Byzantine crafts workers… (p. 326)
21. Silk (p. 327)
22. caesaropapism
23. schism (pp. 335-336 Tensions…)
24. St. Cyril and Methodius (850s C.E.) (p. 339)
25. Hague Sophia
26. iconoclasm
27. Fourth Crusade
28. Moscow the third Rome (p. 340)

Sources from the Past: The Wealth and Commerce of Constantinople (329)

Sources from the Past: Anna Comenena on the Suppression of Bogomil Heretics (334)





























 


Chapter 13: The Commonwealth of Byzantium

Word document or pdf document of map locations and Chapter 13 terms; maps of Byzantine Empire: Early Byzantine Empire | Later Byzantine Empire