AP World History - Chapter 10 <Study
Guide> Already Passed
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what
ways
did it diverge from those patterns? ✔✔Continued Patterns (Original: p. 271 and p. 276;
With Sources: p. 427 and p. 432)
Divergences (Original: pp. 272-273; With
Sources: pp. 428-429)
▪Continuance can be seen in Byzantium's roads,
military structures, centralized administration,
imperial court, laws, and Christian organization
▪It can also be seen in Byzantium's pursuit of the
long-term struggle with the Persian Empire.
▪Byzantium diverged through the development of a
reformed administrative system that gave
appointed generals civil authority in the empire's
provinces and allowed them to raise armies from
the landowning peasants of the region.
▪It also diverged through the new ideas
encompassed in caesaropapism that defined the
relationship between the state and the Church.
2. What happened to the Byzantine Empire after 1085? ✔✔After 1085, Byzantine territory shrank,
owing to incursions by aggressive Christian European powers, by
Catholic Crusaders, and later by Turkic Muslim invaders. (Original: p. 273; With Sources: p. 429)
3. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism? ✔✔Unlike Western
Europe, where the Catholic Church maintained some degree of independence from
, political authorities, in Byzantium the emperor assumed something of the role of both "Caesar,"
as head
of state, and the pope, as head of the Church. Thus the Byzantine emperor appointed the patriarch
of the
Orthodox Church, sometimes made decisions about doctrine, called church councils into session,
and
generally treated the Church as a government department.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Greek became the language of religious practice instead of the
Latin
used in the Roman Catholic Church.
More so than in the West, Byzantine thinkers sought to formulate Christian doctrine in terms of
Greek
philosophical concepts.
The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches disagreed on a number of doctrinal issues,
including the nature of the Trinity, the relative importance of faith and reason, and the veneration
of
icons.
Priests in Byzantium allowed their beards to grow long and permitted to marry, while priests in
the West
shaved and, after 1050 or so, were supposed to remain celibate.
Orthodox ritual called for using bread leavened with yeast n the mass, but Catholics used
unleavened
bread.
Eastern Orthodox leaders sharply rejected the growing claims of Roman popes to be the sole final
authority for all Christians everywhere. (Original: pp. 273-275; With Sources: pp. 429-431)
4. In what political, economic, and cultural ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider
world? ✔✔Political—On a political and military level, Byzantium continued the long-term
struggle with the Persian
Empire.
Guide> Already Passed
1. In what respects did Byzantium continue the patterns of the classical Roman Empire? In what
ways
did it diverge from those patterns? ✔✔Continued Patterns (Original: p. 271 and p. 276;
With Sources: p. 427 and p. 432)
Divergences (Original: pp. 272-273; With
Sources: pp. 428-429)
▪Continuance can be seen in Byzantium's roads,
military structures, centralized administration,
imperial court, laws, and Christian organization
▪It can also be seen in Byzantium's pursuit of the
long-term struggle with the Persian Empire.
▪Byzantium diverged through the development of a
reformed administrative system that gave
appointed generals civil authority in the empire's
provinces and allowed them to raise armies from
the landowning peasants of the region.
▪It also diverged through the new ideas
encompassed in caesaropapism that defined the
relationship between the state and the Church.
2. What happened to the Byzantine Empire after 1085? ✔✔After 1085, Byzantine territory shrank,
owing to incursions by aggressive Christian European powers, by
Catholic Crusaders, and later by Turkic Muslim invaders. (Original: p. 273; With Sources: p. 429)
3. How did Eastern Orthodox Christianity differ from Roman Catholicism? ✔✔Unlike Western
Europe, where the Catholic Church maintained some degree of independence from
, political authorities, in Byzantium the emperor assumed something of the role of both "Caesar,"
as head
of state, and the pope, as head of the Church. Thus the Byzantine emperor appointed the patriarch
of the
Orthodox Church, sometimes made decisions about doctrine, called church councils into session,
and
generally treated the Church as a government department.
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Greek became the language of religious practice instead of the
Latin
used in the Roman Catholic Church.
More so than in the West, Byzantine thinkers sought to formulate Christian doctrine in terms of
Greek
philosophical concepts.
The Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches disagreed on a number of doctrinal issues,
including the nature of the Trinity, the relative importance of faith and reason, and the veneration
of
icons.
Priests in Byzantium allowed their beards to grow long and permitted to marry, while priests in
the West
shaved and, after 1050 or so, were supposed to remain celibate.
Orthodox ritual called for using bread leavened with yeast n the mass, but Catholics used
unleavened
bread.
Eastern Orthodox leaders sharply rejected the growing claims of Roman popes to be the sole final
authority for all Christians everywhere. (Original: pp. 273-275; With Sources: pp. 429-431)
4. In what political, economic, and cultural ways was the Byzantine Empire linked to a wider
world? ✔✔Political—On a political and military level, Byzantium continued the long-term
struggle with the Persian
Empire.
