Name Three Challenges That Emperors Faced When The Borders Of Their Empire
Module 1 Study Guide
Directions: Complete the Pretest! Then, complete this study guide as you are completing your lessons and assignments. Remember, this study guide does not count for a grade. It is to help you understand the module and prepare for your Discussion Based Assessment.
Lesson 1.01 Set the Stage
1. Name three challenges that emperors faced when the borders of their empires expanded:
Match the important events of the Roman Empire:
2. ____ 1000 BCE a. Roman empire controls Italian Peninsula
3. ____ 509 BCE b. Punic Wars
4. ____ 275 BCE c. Julius Caesar conquers Western Europe
5. ____ 264 BCE-146 BCE d. Rome is founded
6. ____ …show more content…
58-51 BCE e. Rome sets up Republic
7. ____ 44 BCE f. Roman Empire reaches height of its power
8. ____ 27 BCE g. Augustus takes control of Rome
9. ____ 200 CE h. Julius Caesar assassinated.
10. Describe two reasons for why the Roman Empire split into eastern and western parts.
Match the city with its importance to the Byzantine Empire
11. ____ Antioch a. government center of Italian territory
12. ____ Alexandria b. capital of Sicily
13. ____ Ravenna c. religious center
14. ____ Syracuse d. government center or Eastern territory
List the places that the following empires controlled.
15. The Persian empire controlled...
16. The Roman Empire controlled...
17. The Byzantine Empire controlled...
18. The Ottoman Empire controlled...
Lesson 1.02 Monotheistic Religions
Fill in this chart using terms from the word bank
| |Judaism |Christianity |Islam |
|Prophets | | | |
|Messiah | | | |
|Holy Book | | | |
|House of Worship | | | |
|Religious Leaders | | | |
|Holy Sites | | | |
|Sects | | | |
|Basic Beliefs | | | |
1.03: The Expansion of Islam
Directions: while reading the lesson, fill in the blanks with key terms.
This lesson explores the __________________ or spread, of the __________________ faith from its beginnings in the seventh century to today. Although the largest numbers of Muslims live in ___________, ____________, and __________________ followers of the Islamic faith make up sizable minority groups in Europe and in North America. Muhammad had been preaching the ____________ given him by the angel Gabriel in ____________. His teachings emphasized the belief in and ____________ to a single god. Islam means: ____________ to the will of God. A ____________ is someone one who submits to the will of God. From the time of ____________, Arab merchants carried their ____________ beliefs with them and shared them with the people with whom they traded. Through ____________ and ____________ trade, Islam reached into North, Sub-Saharan, and East ____________, as well as across Southwest and Central ____________. In 632, ____________ ____________ without leaving a clear plan for how newly united Arabia should be ruled. Followers of Islam split into ____________ factions over the issue of ____________: the ____________Muslims and the ____________ Muslims. In the ____________ ____________, there were four social classes. Not only did ____________ impact the Mediterranean area and the Middle East, its influence reached ____________ and parts of ____________ ____________. Although the Islamic empires in India did not ____________, the Islamic religion remains a ____________ ____________ among people in the region today. The help of a ____________ ____________, universal banking system, and common language – ____________, contributed to unifying the empire both politically and economically.
Match the city with the country it is in.
City: Country:
_______ Granada _______ Mogadishu a. Israel j. Egypt
_______ Tangier b. Mali
_______ Timbuktu c. Somalia
_______ Cairo d. Iraq
_______ Constantinople e. Spain
_______ Tabriz f. Turkey
_______ Baghdad g. Morocco
_______ Jerusalem h. Yemen
_______ Aden i. Iran
1.04 The Golden Age of Islam
Directions: After reading module 1.04, list 4 achievements of the Golden Age of Islam:
1. Economic Achievement (relates to money and trade)
2. Intellectual Achievement (relates to Arts and Architecture, education, philosophies, writing systems)
3. Political (relates to government)
4. Social (relates to Gender roles, family, race, ethnicity, social and economic class)
1.05 The Byzantines
Directions: while reading the lesson, fill in the blanks with key terms.
The Roman Empire had stretched so large by the fourth century CE that it had several provincial ________________. The two most important political centers were ________________ in the ________________ and ________________ in the ________________, which had formerly been called ________________. With ________________ the Great's support, ________________ had become the official ________________ of the Roman Empire by the end of the fourth century CE. Latin was the official ________________ of the Roman Empire, but more people spoke ________________ in the ________________. In the Byzantine Empire, the highest ________________ authority and highest ________________ authority was the ________________ person. However, in the ________________, kings and church leaders were ________________, though kings answered to the ________________. In the eighth and ninth centuries, the Byzantine Empire is probably most famous for the ________________ ________________. The pope and bishops in the West ________________. the use of icons, as did most Byzantine bishops.
The use of ________________ as religious symbols was not the only issue dividing the ________________ and ________________ churches. One was the use of ________________ instead of unleavened bread in worship. Another issue was the power of the ________________, who saw the position of the emperor over the ________________ in the East as a challenge to his own authority. This event marks the ________________ ________________, or split, in ________________ between East and West. The Church in the ________________ became the Roman ________________ Church. The Eastern ________________ Church continued to grow in the East, based in ________________. St. ________________ was talented in learning languages and worked to create the first written ________________ for the Slavonic ________________.
1.06 Byzantine Empire: Achievement and Expansion: Objectives
1. Describe three ways Emperor Constantine contributed to the Byzantine Empire:
a.
b.
c.
2. Describe three ways Constantinople's Location Contribute to Trade:
a.
b.
c.
3. What is the Hagia Sophia?
4. What were the 3 classes of the Byzantine Empire?
a.
b.
c.
5. Describe 3 characteristics of Byzantine Culture:
a.
b.
c.
6. Who was Justinian I?
7. What are the two principles of the Justinian Code?
01.07 Collapse of an Empire
In 2-3 sentences, explain how each of the following categories contributed to the fall of the Byzantine Empire:
Political:
Military:
Macedonian Dynasty
Crusades
Ottoman Turks
In 1-2 sentences, describe each aspect of the Ottoman Empire’s culture:
Religion:
Role of Women:
Social Classes:
Byzantine Influence:
Vocabulary Terms
1. Abraham: a Mesopotamian man who lived around 1800 BCE and is believed to be the patriarch of the three major monotheistic religions. Alexandria: a religious center of the Byzantine Empire
2. Abbasid Caliphate: It became the second major Islamic dynasty.
3. Antioch: the government center of the far eastern Byzantine Empire
4. Bedouin: an Arab ethnic group that largely lives a nomadic or seminomadic life in the deserts of Southwest Asia and North Africa and whose people are generally organized into tribes or clans
5. Bible: Holy book of Christianity.
6. Bureaucracy: a group of officials and other workers who take care of the daily business of government
7. Burqa: An outer garment worn by women in public in Islamic cultures
8. Byzantine Empire: Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Capital city was Constantinople (Istanbul). Lasted from 300s C.E. to 1453 C.E.
9. Canaan: Biblical or ancient name for the lands of modern Israel that lie between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea
10. Constantine I: Roman emperor who ruled from 306 CE to 337 CE. He was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, and he established Christianity as the empire's religion; he also moved the Roman capital from Rome to Constantinople
11. Constantinople: noun. The former name of the city of Istanbul, Turkey.
12. Continent: noun. One of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).
13. Denominations: branches or subgroups of a religion with specific beliefs or practices that distinguish it from other branches
14. Diffusion: the process of spreading phenomena, such as religion and other cultural elements, from one area or group of people to another through contact
15. Economic Focus: trade, commerce, production, currency, natural resources
16. Five Pillars of Islam: The Five Pillars of Islam are a set of acts considered by Muslims to be central to their faith. They are shahadah (statement of belief), salat (daily prayers), sawm (fasting) during Ramadan, zakat (alms-giving), and hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca).
17. Hellenistic: relating to ancient Greek civilization
18. Hijira: the journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 CE
19. Hindu: a follower of Hinduism, a religious system that originated on the Indian subcontinent that emphasizes a cycle of rebirth in human existence and the role of dharma, or one's duty according to basic universal principles and laws
20. The House of Wisdom: The House of Wisdom was a school and library founded by Caliph Al-Ma'mun in Baghdad, which attracted scholars from surrounding continents.
21. Iconoclasm Controversy: debate in the seventh to ninth centuries of the Byzantine Empire over the Church's creation and use of icons
22. Intellectual Focus: Arts and Architecture, education, philosophies, writing systems
23. Janissaries: slaves of the sultan trained for battle.
24.
Jesus Christ: He is the most important figure in Christianity, held by tradition to have been the son of God. Christians believe that Jesus allowed himself to be crucified by the Romans to atone for the sins of humanity.
25. Jizya: a poll tax paid by minority religious groups within the Muslim empire
26. Justinian Code: a collection of laws and legal interpretations formed with the support of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I
27. Kinship: a relationship or connection between two parties that share a common biological, cultural, or historical origin
28. Muhammed: Muhammad is the founder of Islam. Muslims consider him to be the last in a line of prophets of God. His prophesies, collected in the Qur'an, are believed by Muslims to be the word of God.
29. Moses: He is the most important figure in Judaism, believed to have written the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible). Moses is an important prophet in both Christianity and Islam.
30. Ottoman Turks: Turkish group ruled by the Ottoman dynasty; formed an empire that lasted from about 1300 to 1922
31. Patriarch: a man considered the father or founder of a family, race, or religion
32. Political Focus: forms of government, revolutions, legal systems, war and
peace
33. Punic Wars: three wars fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic between 264 BCE and 146 BCE
34. Qu’uran: Holy book of Islam.
35. Ravenna: the government center of the Italian territory of the Byzantine Empire
36. Religious Focus: Beliefs, prophets, rituals.
37. Roman Republic: a political state established by the Roman people that had a representative government for its citizens; it lasted from 509 BCE to 27 BCE.
38. Social Focus: Gender roles, family, race, ethnicity, social and economic class, population, demographics
39. Sultanate: a state or country, generally Islamic, governed by a ruler known as a sultan
40. Syracuse: the capital of the island of Sicily during the Byzantine Empire
41. Technological Focus: science, inventions, technology,
42. Torah: Holy book of Judaism
43. Umayyad Caliphate: The Umayyad Caliphate (661 CE to 750 CE) was the second Islamic caliphate after Muhammad's death. It was also the first Islamic empire.
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Word Bank
Abraham Imam Synagogue Sunni and Shi’a Rabbi Afterlife
Jesus Christ Church of the Nativity Mosque One God Pope
Church, Cathedral Moses Temple Mount Bible Priest
Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Torah Kaaba Not yet come
Original Sin
Directions: Complete the Pretest! Then, complete this study guide as you are completing your lessons and assignments. Remember, this study guide does not count for a grade. It is to help you understand the module and prepare for your Discussion Based Assessment.
Lesson 1.01 Set the Stage
1. Name three challenges that emperors faced when the borders of their empires expanded:
Match the important events of the Roman Empire:
2. ____ 1000 BCE a. Roman empire controls Italian Peninsula
3. ____ 509 BCE b. Punic Wars
4. ____ 275 BCE c. Julius Caesar conquers Western Europe
5. ____ 264 BCE-146 BCE d. Rome is founded
6. ____ …show more content…
58-51 BCE e. Rome sets up Republic
7. ____ 44 BCE f. Roman Empire reaches height of its power
8. ____ 27 BCE g. Augustus takes control of Rome
9. ____ 200 CE h. Julius Caesar assassinated.
10. Describe two reasons for why the Roman Empire split into eastern and western parts.
Match the city with its importance to the Byzantine Empire
11. ____ Antioch a. government center of Italian territory
12. ____ Alexandria b. capital of Sicily
13. ____ Ravenna c. religious center
14. ____ Syracuse d. government center or Eastern territory
List the places that the following empires controlled.
15. The Persian empire controlled...
16. The Roman Empire controlled...
17. The Byzantine Empire controlled...
18. The Ottoman Empire controlled...
Lesson 1.02 Monotheistic Religions
Fill in this chart using terms from the word bank
| |Judaism |Christianity |Islam |
|Prophets | | | |
|Messiah | | | |
|Holy Book | | | |
|House of Worship | | | |
|Religious Leaders | | | |
|Holy Sites | | | |
|Sects | | | |
|Basic Beliefs | | | |
1.03: The Expansion of Islam
Directions: while reading the lesson, fill in the blanks with key terms.
This lesson explores the __________________ or spread, of the __________________ faith from its beginnings in the seventh century to today. Although the largest numbers of Muslims live in ___________, ____________, and __________________ followers of the Islamic faith make up sizable minority groups in Europe and in North America. Muhammad had been preaching the ____________ given him by the angel Gabriel in ____________. His teachings emphasized the belief in and ____________ to a single god. Islam means: ____________ to the will of God. A ____________ is someone one who submits to the will of God. From the time of ____________, Arab merchants carried their ____________ beliefs with them and shared them with the people with whom they traded. Through ____________ and ____________ trade, Islam reached into North, Sub-Saharan, and East ____________, as well as across Southwest and Central ____________. In 632, ____________ ____________ without leaving a clear plan for how newly united Arabia should be ruled. Followers of Islam split into ____________ factions over the issue of ____________: the ____________Muslims and the ____________ Muslims. In the ____________ ____________, there were four social classes. Not only did ____________ impact the Mediterranean area and the Middle East, its influence reached ____________ and parts of ____________ ____________. Although the Islamic empires in India did not ____________, the Islamic religion remains a ____________ ____________ among people in the region today. The help of a ____________ ____________, universal banking system, and common language – ____________, contributed to unifying the empire both politically and economically.
Match the city with the country it is in.
City: Country:
_______ Granada _______ Mogadishu a. Israel j. Egypt
_______ Tangier b. Mali
_______ Timbuktu c. Somalia
_______ Cairo d. Iraq
_______ Constantinople e. Spain
_______ Tabriz f. Turkey
_______ Baghdad g. Morocco
_______ Jerusalem h. Yemen
_______ Aden i. Iran
1.04 The Golden Age of Islam
Directions: After reading module 1.04, list 4 achievements of the Golden Age of Islam:
1. Economic Achievement (relates to money and trade)
2. Intellectual Achievement (relates to Arts and Architecture, education, philosophies, writing systems)
3. Political (relates to government)
4. Social (relates to Gender roles, family, race, ethnicity, social and economic class)
1.05 The Byzantines
Directions: while reading the lesson, fill in the blanks with key terms.
The Roman Empire had stretched so large by the fourth century CE that it had several provincial ________________. The two most important political centers were ________________ in the ________________ and ________________ in the ________________, which had formerly been called ________________. With ________________ the Great's support, ________________ had become the official ________________ of the Roman Empire by the end of the fourth century CE. Latin was the official ________________ of the Roman Empire, but more people spoke ________________ in the ________________. In the Byzantine Empire, the highest ________________ authority and highest ________________ authority was the ________________ person. However, in the ________________, kings and church leaders were ________________, though kings answered to the ________________. In the eighth and ninth centuries, the Byzantine Empire is probably most famous for the ________________ ________________. The pope and bishops in the West ________________. the use of icons, as did most Byzantine bishops.
The use of ________________ as religious symbols was not the only issue dividing the ________________ and ________________ churches. One was the use of ________________ instead of unleavened bread in worship. Another issue was the power of the ________________, who saw the position of the emperor over the ________________ in the East as a challenge to his own authority. This event marks the ________________ ________________, or split, in ________________ between East and West. The Church in the ________________ became the Roman ________________ Church. The Eastern ________________ Church continued to grow in the East, based in ________________. St. ________________ was talented in learning languages and worked to create the first written ________________ for the Slavonic ________________.
1.06 Byzantine Empire: Achievement and Expansion: Objectives
1. Describe three ways Emperor Constantine contributed to the Byzantine Empire:
a.
b.
c.
2. Describe three ways Constantinople's Location Contribute to Trade:
a.
b.
c.
3. What is the Hagia Sophia?
4. What were the 3 classes of the Byzantine Empire?
a.
b.
c.
5. Describe 3 characteristics of Byzantine Culture:
a.
b.
c.
6. Who was Justinian I?
7. What are the two principles of the Justinian Code?
01.07 Collapse of an Empire
In 2-3 sentences, explain how each of the following categories contributed to the fall of the Byzantine Empire:
Political:
Military:
Macedonian Dynasty
Crusades
Ottoman Turks
In 1-2 sentences, describe each aspect of the Ottoman Empire’s culture:
Religion:
Role of Women:
Social Classes:
Byzantine Influence:
Vocabulary Terms
1. Abraham: a Mesopotamian man who lived around 1800 BCE and is believed to be the patriarch of the three major monotheistic religions. Alexandria: a religious center of the Byzantine Empire
2. Abbasid Caliphate: It became the second major Islamic dynasty.
3. Antioch: the government center of the far eastern Byzantine Empire
4. Bedouin: an Arab ethnic group that largely lives a nomadic or seminomadic life in the deserts of Southwest Asia and North Africa and whose people are generally organized into tribes or clans
5. Bible: Holy book of Christianity.
6. Bureaucracy: a group of officials and other workers who take care of the daily business of government
7. Burqa: An outer garment worn by women in public in Islamic cultures
8. Byzantine Empire: Eastern half of the Roman Empire. Capital city was Constantinople (Istanbul). Lasted from 300s C.E. to 1453 C.E.
9. Canaan: Biblical or ancient name for the lands of modern Israel that lie between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea
10. Constantine I: Roman emperor who ruled from 306 CE to 337 CE. He was the first Roman emperor to convert to Christianity, and he established Christianity as the empire's religion; he also moved the Roman capital from Rome to Constantinople
11. Constantinople: noun. The former name of the city of Istanbul, Turkey.
12. Continent: noun. One of the main landmasses of the globe, usually reckoned as seven in number (Europe, Asia, Africa, North America, South America, Australia, and Antarctica).
13. Denominations: branches or subgroups of a religion with specific beliefs or practices that distinguish it from other branches
14. Diffusion: the process of spreading phenomena, such as religion and other cultural elements, from one area or group of people to another through contact
15. Economic Focus: trade, commerce, production, currency, natural resources
16. Five Pillars of Islam: The Five Pillars of Islam are a set of acts considered by Muslims to be central to their faith. They are shahadah (statement of belief), salat (daily prayers), sawm (fasting) during Ramadan, zakat (alms-giving), and hajj (pilgrimage to Mecca).
17. Hellenistic: relating to ancient Greek civilization
18. Hijira: the journey of the Islamic prophet Muhammad and his followers from Mecca to Yathrib (later Medina) in 622 CE
19. Hindu: a follower of Hinduism, a religious system that originated on the Indian subcontinent that emphasizes a cycle of rebirth in human existence and the role of dharma, or one's duty according to basic universal principles and laws
20. The House of Wisdom: The House of Wisdom was a school and library founded by Caliph Al-Ma'mun in Baghdad, which attracted scholars from surrounding continents.
21. Iconoclasm Controversy: debate in the seventh to ninth centuries of the Byzantine Empire over the Church's creation and use of icons
22. Intellectual Focus: Arts and Architecture, education, philosophies, writing systems
23. Janissaries: slaves of the sultan trained for battle.
24.
Jesus Christ: He is the most important figure in Christianity, held by tradition to have been the son of God. Christians believe that Jesus allowed himself to be crucified by the Romans to atone for the sins of humanity.
25. Jizya: a poll tax paid by minority religious groups within the Muslim empire
26. Justinian Code: a collection of laws and legal interpretations formed with the support of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I
27. Kinship: a relationship or connection between two parties that share a common biological, cultural, or historical origin
28. Muhammed: Muhammad is the founder of Islam. Muslims consider him to be the last in a line of prophets of God. His prophesies, collected in the Qur'an, are believed by Muslims to be the word of God.
29. Moses: He is the most important figure in Judaism, believed to have written the Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible). Moses is an important prophet in both Christianity and Islam.
30. Ottoman Turks: Turkish group ruled by the Ottoman dynasty; formed an empire that lasted from about 1300 to 1922
31. Patriarch: a man considered the father or founder of a family, race, or religion
32. Political Focus: forms of government, revolutions, legal systems, war and
peace
33. Punic Wars: three wars fought between Carthage and the Roman Republic between 264 BCE and 146 BCE
34. Qu’uran: Holy book of Islam.
35. Ravenna: the government center of the Italian territory of the Byzantine Empire
36. Religious Focus: Beliefs, prophets, rituals.
37. Roman Republic: a political state established by the Roman people that had a representative government for its citizens; it lasted from 509 BCE to 27 BCE.
38. Social Focus: Gender roles, family, race, ethnicity, social and economic class, population, demographics
39. Sultanate: a state or country, generally Islamic, governed by a ruler known as a sultan
40. Syracuse: the capital of the island of Sicily during the Byzantine Empire
41. Technological Focus: science, inventions, technology,
42. Torah: Holy book of Judaism
43. Umayyad Caliphate: The Umayyad Caliphate (661 CE to 750 CE) was the second Islamic caliphate after Muhammad's death. It was also the first Islamic empire.
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Word Bank
Abraham Imam Synagogue Sunni and Shi’a Rabbi Afterlife
Jesus Christ Church of the Nativity Mosque One God Pope
Church, Cathedral Moses Temple Mount Bible Priest
Reform, Conservative, and Orthodox Torah Kaaba Not yet come
Original Sin