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