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