<p> Post Classical Era: Civilization in Eastern Europe- Byzantium & Orthodox Europe </p><p>Name______Period_____</p><p>Andrus AP World History Ch 9 Reading Study Guide #2 P. 201-208</p><p>1. What happened between the Pope in Rome and the Patriarch in Constantinople in 1054? </p><p>2. What were the issues at stake in this East-West Schism of Christianity?</p><p>3. Why is the Battle of Manzikert significant? What happened?</p><p>4. How did this lead to the Crusades (from Western Europe)?</p><p>5. What happened during a crusade in 1204?</p><p>6. Why was the fall of Constantinople so significant in World History?</p><p>7. Study Map 9.2, How and when did the Byzantine Empire decline from major to minor power status?</p><p>8. Who were the famous missionaries from the Byzantine Empire? Where did they go? What did they accomplish?</p><p>9. What region in Eastern Europe became an “area of competition” and connection between east & west?</p><p>10. What ethno-religious minority entered Eastern Europe during this time? Why? </p><p>11. Which group brought trade; more organized governments & eventual contact with the Byzantines to Slavs/Russia/Eastern Europe?</p><p>12. When did Vladimir I reign in Kievan Rus’ Post Classical Era: Civilization in Eastern Europe- Byzantium & Orthodox Europe </p><p>13. Why did Vladimir I convert (himself & his WHOLE kingdom) to Orthodox Christianity?</p><p>14. How did this lead to the foundation of the Russian Orthodox Church?</p><p>15. What is the term used for landholding Russian aristocrats?</p><p>Read: “Russia turns to Christianity”</p><p>16. In what ways might the account be simplistic in describing royal powers & popular response?</p><p>17. What kind of church-state relationship did this kind of conversion predict?</p><p>18. What nomadic warrior group invaded the Russian principalities of Kiev & Moscow in 1237-1241?</p><p>19. Why was the point of this invasion? What did the Russians call these people?</p><p>20. How did this outside invasion strengthen a unified Russian identity?</p><p>21. Why did some consider Russia/Moscow to be the “Third Rome”? </p><p>Read: “In Depth: Eastern & Western Europe: The Problem of Boundaries”</p><p>22. What were the main characteristics of Russian Civilization as it first emerged in the postclassical period?</p><p>23. In what ways did Poland, Hungary and the Czech lands differ from these characteristics?</p><p>Post Classical Era: Civilization in Eastern Europe- Byzantium & Orthodox Europe </p>