1. European Civilizations
Review

2. Western Europe from 500 to 1000
What were the political changes?
What were the political continuities?
What were the economic changes?
What were the cultural changes?
What were the cultural continuities?
What were the social structure changes?
What were the social structure continuities?

3. Western Europe from 1000-1500
What were changes in how humans interacted
with the environment?
What were the political continuities?
What were the political changes?
What were the economic changes?
What were changes in women’s status?

4. Western Europe from 1000-1500
What were the causes and results of the Crusades
(1000 – 1400)?

5. Western Europe
• Who was Charlemagne? Why is he important?
• What is the difference between clergy and
laypeople?
• What is the difference between a nun and a
Bishop?
• What is a guild?
• Who is Thomas Aquinas and why is he
important?

6. Western Europe before 1000
• What were unifying factors?
• What were similarities between Western
Europe and China after the Han dynasty?

7. Byzantine Empire
• How was it different than Western Europe at the
same time?
– In political structure
– in commerce and trade
• What was a continuity between Roman Empire
and the Byzantine Empire?
• Which regions of the world did Byzantium
influence?
• Which groups attacked the Byzantine Empire and
weakened it in this period?
• What learning did the Byzantine Empire preserve?

8. Byzantine Empire
• What were the differences between
Orthodox Christianity and Roman Catholic
Christianity?
• How was Byzantium like Tang and Song China
politically?
• How was Byzantium like Islamic civilization
under the Umayyads and Abbasids?

9. Byzantine Empire
• Who was Justinian and why was he
important?

10. COMPARE
• Analyze the similarities and differences in the
culture of the Byzantine Empire and the
Islamic Empire under the Umayyads and
Abbasids in the 8th to 12th centuries.