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HISTORY
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History 251 First Page I Semester Syllabus and Study Guides I Summer Syllabus and Study Guides I Semester Reqirements I Summer Requirements I Museum Field Project I Cultural Project I Bibliography I Videos and DVD's I Paper I Maps I Chronology I Websites |
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Identification Items Identify and be able to discuss the importance of the following items: Fourth Crusade, Theodosius I (379-395 CE), Justinian I (r. 527-565 CE), Church of Hagia Sophia, Justinian Law Code, Heraclius (610-641 CE), Leo III (r. 717-740 CE), Empress Irene (r.797-802 CE) the Iconoclistic Debate, Monophysite Christians, Basil the Macedonian (r. 867-886 CE), Fourth Crusade, Basil II, Alexius Commenus, Romanus IV Diogenes, Theodore Lascaris, Michael Palaeologus, Catalan Grand Company |
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What was the political organization of the Byzantine Empire? 2. What were the factors in the decline of the Byzantine Empire? 3. What were the inherent difficulties in maintaining unity in the Byzantine Empire? How did religious differences (including iconoclasm) contribute to disunity? |
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| Reading Assignment, Ochsenwald and Fisher, Chapter 13 | |
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