Traditions and Encounters, 4th Edition (Bentley)

Chapter 13: THE COMMONWEALTH OF BYZANTIUM

Study Questions

1
What is the significance of the story of the monks smuggling the silkworm eggs to Byzantium?
2
What elements did Byzantium inherit from the Roman Empire that helped it to survive?
3
Describe the Byzantine form of government.
4
What was the significance of Justinian's Body of Civil Law?
5
What were the consequences of the rise of the Islamic empire for Byzantium?
6
What was the theme system? How did it work? Why was it so successful? What led to its demise?
7
What economic advantages did the Byzantine Empire possess?
8
Trace the development of the Byzantine church to the schism. What caused the schism?
9
What kinds of problems eventually led to the constriction and fall of the Byzantine Empire?
10
What was the relationship between the Byzantines and the Slavic people, including the Russians?
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