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AP World History Ch 5 Reading Study Guide #2 P. 113-127
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Notecard Terms:
Coptic Christians
Syncretism
Animism
1. What are some of the indicators that Rome was in serious decline? Pg.113
2. How has the fall (and non-recovery) of Roman civilization affected the Western tradition? Pg.114
3. What happened among Rome’s elites to further or accelerate the collapse? Pg.114
4. How did late Roman local government arrangement foreshadow Medieval European manorialism? Pg.115
5. Why did Emperor Diocletian persecute the Christians in the Roman Empire? Pg.115
6. Why did Emperor Constantine support and later convert to Christianity? Pg.115
7. Why did many Roman peasants actually welcome the Barbarian Germanic invaders as liberators? Pg.115
8. Why was the fall of the Roman Empire and Roman civilization a much more serious affair than similar declines in
India or China? Pg.115
9. Describe the achievements and civilization in the surviving Byzantine Empire. Pgs.115-117
10. What was the situation in the Middle East/Old Persian Empire after Rome fell? Pg.116
11. Describe the Sassanid Empire and its contributions through the 7th Century CE. Pgs.116-117
12. What was the situation in the North Africa after Rome fell? Pg.117
13. What was the situation in the Western Europe after Rome fell? Pgs.117-118
14. Why did Christianity and Buddhism experience such rapid growth and popularity as the Classical World civilizations
collapsed? Pg.118
15. How did Buddhism change and evolve to attract more followers? Pgs.118-119
Read Document: The Popularization of Buddhism. Pg. 119
16. Why did Buddhism spread widely in China by the 6th century? (Reading Pg.119)
17. How do these documents suggest some of the troubles China faced after the collapse of the Han dynasty? (Reading
Pg.119)
18. What is Mahayana Buddhism? Where did Buddhism find the most converts? Pg.120
19. How did Confucian leaders react to Buddhism? Pg.120
20. How did Daoists react to Buddhism? Pg.120
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21. Why did Christianity gain followers during this time? Pg.121
22. What was the role of the Pope in Western European Christianity? Pg.121
23. How did Christianity adapt to polytheistic values among its new members? Pgs.121-122
24. How did Christianity change and evolve to attract more followers? Pg.122
25. What did Benedict of Nursia do to help spread Christianity? Pg.122
26. What new culture was promoted among Christian followers? Pg.122
27. What is the definition of a “World Religion”? Pg.122
Read Visualizing the Past: Religious Geography. Pg 123
28. Where are the greatest concentrations of the four major religions today? (Reading Pg.123)
29. How were major world religions spread? Pg.124
30. What 3 major themes for world history were produced by 500 CE that would carry on? Pg.124
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