World History, Grades 9-12

302 Chapter 11 Life in the New Rome A separate government and difficult communications with the West gave the Byzantine Empire i ...

Church building, however, was the emperor’s greatest passion. Justinian viewed churches as the most visible sign of the close co ...

304 Chapter 11 Making Inferences How might the plague have helped make Byzantium more vulnerable to foreign attack? Analyzing Pr ...

Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy Originally, Christianity had one church. Because of political conflicts and differences ...

306 Chapter 11 Another significant figure was Saint John Chrysostom (KRIHS•uhs•tuhm). As bishop of Constantinople from 398 to 40 ...

Byzantines, Russians, and Turks Interact 307 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES EMPIRE BUILDINGRussia grew out of a ...

308 Chapter 11 resisted Christianity. However, soon after Olga’s grandson Vladimir(VLAD• uh•meer) came to the throne about 980, ...

Kiev’s DeclineThe decline of the Kievan state started with the death of Yaroslav in During his reign, Yaroslav had made what tu ...

310 Chapter 11 The Mongols demanded just two things from Russians: absolute obedience and massive amounts of tribute, or payment ...

Ivan convinced the Patriarch of Kiev, the leading bishop of Eastern Europe, to move to Moscow. The move improved the city’s pres ...

312 Chapter 11 Russian Religious Art and Architecture Russian religious art follows an ancient tradition dating back to the earl ...

1.Making InferencesWhy do you think the archangels Michael and Gabriel were popular subjects for Russian religious art? See Skil ...

314 Chapter 11 MAIN IDEA WHY IT MATTERS NOW TERMS & NAMES CULTURAL INTERACTION Turkish people converted to Islam and founded ...

migrating Turkish groups was known as the Seljuks (SEHL•JOOKS), after the family that led them. The Seljuks gradually grew in nu ...

316 Chapter 11 Seljuks Confront Crusaders and Mongols Malik Shah ruled as the last of the strong Seljuk leaders. After his unexp ...

Wassaf speaks to the Mongols’ fierce and overwhelming fighting methods: PRIMARY SOURCE The arrows and bolts, the lances and spea ...

Byzantines, Russians, and Turks A.D. 300 A.D. 900 A.D. 1500 Byzantium Russia Seljuk Empire 527 Justinian I becomes emperor. 1054 ...

Byzantines, Russians, and Turks Interact 319 1.InteractwithHistory On page 300, you considered ways of expanding the Byzantine E ...

320 Empires in East Asia, 600-1350 Previewing Main Ideas Buddhism, which had reached China from India, spread from China to Japa ...

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