Task 2 1st Term HISTORY

Summerhill School
Love and Wisdom

Student: _________________________________________________ Class: _6TH ________
Subject: _HISTORY______ _________________________________ Date: _______
Teachers: _Mr LUIS DAVID SANCHEZ.
Carefully read the sketch map and develop activities
1. Describe two symbols of this map
2. Mention When the Empire expanded
At ________________________________________under ruled of ______________________
3. Why the empire´s territories larger to east than to the west

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BYZANTINE EMPIRE
When the Roman Empire split into two Emperor. Under Justinian I, the empire
separate empires, the Eastern Roman Empire gained territory and would reach the peak of
became known as the Byzantine Empire. The its power and wealth. Justinian also
Byzantine Empire continued on for 1000 established many reforms. One major reform
years after the Western Roman Empire, had to do with the law. First, he had all the
including Rome, collapsed in 476 CE. The existing Roman laws reviewed. These laws
Byzantine Empire ruled most of Eastern and had been written down over the course of
Southern Europe throughout the Middle hundreds of years and existed in hundreds of
Ages. Its capital city, Constantinople, was the different documents. Then he had the laws
largest and wealthiest city in Europe during rewritten into a single book called the Corpus
the time. of Civil Law, or the Justinian Code.
CONSTANTINE Emperor Constantine I came WARS AGAINST THE MUSLIMS Throughout

to power as emperor in 306 CE. He made the much of the Middle Ages the Byzantium
Greek city of Byzantium the capital of the Empire fought the Muslims for control of the
Eastern Roman Empire. The city was eastern Mediterranean. This included asking
renamed to Constantinople. Constantine the Pope and the Holy Roman Empire for
ruled as emperor for 30 years. Under help during the first Crusade to regain
Constantine, the Empire would thrive and control of the Holy Land. They battled the
become powerful. Constantine also Seljuk Turks and other Arab and Muslim
embraced Christianity which would become forces for hundreds of years. Finally, in 1453,
a large part of the Roman Empire for the Constantinople fell to the Ottoman Empire
next 1000 years. and with it came the end of the Byzantine
Empire.
JUSTINIAN DYNASTY The peak of the
Byzantine Empire occurred during the Taken by Duckstershistory.com
Justinian Dynasty. In 527 Justinian I became
READING COMPREHENSION
4. Why Roman Empire divided in two halves
5. What was the new capital of the empire and for how long?
6. Describe through two short sentences who was Constantine?
7. Why was Justinian's code so important in his time?
8. Who were the Muslims and why was there a war against them?
RETELLING STATEMENTS
Re write the statements below, using your own words

9. At the height of the Byzantines under Justinian I’s rule, it is estimated that there were 26
million people spread across the empire and over one million people in the city of
Constantinople.
10. The Byzantine Empire was founded by Emperor Constantine the Great in 330 when he
moved the Roman Empire to the site of the ancient Greek city of Byzantium and declared
it New Rome.
11. Byzantium was a strategic location on the Bosphorus Strait, which effectively connects the
Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea by way of the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara. It
is still a strategic location, and is still one of the most significant straits for oil trade in the
world.
12. The emergence of Christianity, and its acceptance as a tolerable religion, was one of the
major characteristics of the Byzantine Empire. Christianity rapidly spread throughout the
empire, and quickly became the main religion of the region.
1. according with the video complete each statement and answer the questions below.
 During the founding of Rome the first type of government was ____________, and its first
monarch was ______________.
 Most of nations over _______________________sea were conquered by the ___________
 Romans were known as very good ______________. They ____________ many public
works like _____________, _______________, and ______________
 Roman children have to go to _________________.
 Some enemies of Rome were barbarians came from ___________________.
A. How long was the Rome´s foundation?

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B. What was a republic?

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C. What nations were conquered by Rome?

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D. What were the social classes in the time of Rome?

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2. Match some nations conquered by romans into the sketch map

 Egypt ____
 Syria ____
 Hispania ___
 Gauls___
 Germania __
3. Complete the following concept map according each subtitle

Characteristics
about
economy
Characteristics
about political
system
Characteristics Characteristics
about public about cultural
works legacies
Differences
with
monarchy
4. Together with the teacher read carefully the slides on the Roman Empire and summarize the
information about the emperor Julius Caesar and his most important achievements.
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5. Finally complete the second concept map with causes and consequences to the Fall or Roma Empire

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Love and Wisdom

Carefully read the sketch map and develop activities

1. Describe two symbols of this map

2. Mention When the Empire expanded

At __________________under ruled of

3. Why the empire´s territories larger to east than to the west

CONSTANTINE Emperor Constantine I came WARS AGAINST THE MUSLIMS Throughout

Re write the statements below, using your own words

A. How long was the Rome´s foundation?

B. What was a republic?

C. What nations were conquered by Rome?

D. What were the social classes in the time of Rome?

2. Match some nations conquered by romans into the sketch map

3. Complete the following concept map according each subtitle

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