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Stearns Homework – Chapter 4 pages 68-72
Section I - Outline: Answer the following sequential questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Patterns of Greek and Roman History
1. What were the Punic Wars?
2. Describe the growth of the Roman republic under the Caesars.
3. What religion did Constantine bring to the region?
4. How did the new Mediterranean civilizations build on earlier cultures along the eastern
Mediterranean and within the Greek islands?
Section II - Map Activity: Use the map to answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Map 4.3 The Roman Empire from Augustus to 180 C.E. (page 71)
1. What advantages did Rome’s geographic location give it?
2. In order to create an empire and defend its borders, what would the Roman Empire need?
Section III - Vocabulary: Define the following key terms in the center column and then give a
detailed description of their importance to World History.
Term
1. Roman Republic
2. Punic wars
3. Carthage
4. Hannibal
5. Julius Caesar
6. Augustus Caesar
7. Diocletian
8. Constantine
Definition
Significance
Stearns Homework – Chapter 4 pages 73-75
Section I - Outline: Answer the following sequential questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Greek and Roman Political Institutions
1. How did the Roman Senate differ from direct democracy in Athens?
2. What was the purpose of the “twelve tables”?
3. Why was Christianity the only religion that was not tolerated in the Roman Empire?
Section II – Document Analysis: Answer the following questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Document - Rome and a Values Crisis (page 83)
1. What kind of objections to Greek learning is Cicero arguing against?
2. Which of his arguments had the most lasting appeal to those who were reshaping Roman
culture?
3. Can you think of similar debates about foreign culture in other times and places in
history?
4. How would you use this document to reconstruct the debate Cicero was participating in
and why it seemed important?
Section III - Vocabulary: Define the following key terms in the center column and then give a
detailed description of their importance to World History.
Term
Definition
Significance
1. Senate
2. Consuls
3. Cicero
Stearns Homework – Chapter 4 page 84 and Chapter 5 pages 96-100
Section I - Outline: Answer the following sequential questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Toward the Fall of Rome
1. Explain how the fall of Rome was fragmented, or not uniform.
2. What are some of the areas that Greece/Rome influenced and were influenced by?
Decline and Fall in Rome
3. How did political and economic life in the Roman Empire shift after 180 C.E.?
4. What effect did the spread of disease have on the decline of Rome?
5. What was the key to the process of decline in Rome?
6. Who tried to stop the decline of Rome and how successful were they?
7. What three zones was Rome divided into?
Section II - Map Activity: Use the map to answer in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Maps 5.3 and 5.4 - (pages 98 and 99)
1. Nomadic tribes converged mainly on the western part of the Roman Empire. Was this
the cause or result of greater weakness in the West than in the East?
2. What geographic features protected the Byzantine (east Roman) Empire from barbarian
invasions?
Section III - Vocabulary: Define the following key terms in the center column and then give a
detailed description of their importance to World History.
Term
1. Byzantine Empire
2. Justinian
3. Augustine
Definition
Significance
4. Coptic
Stearns Homework – Chapter 5 pages 100-106
Section I - Outline: Answer the following sequential questions in COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1. How was Christianity different from Buddhism?
2. What reform movements sprang up with relation to the Christian religion?
3. What was the message of Jesus and his disciples?
4. Why was the spread of Christianity happening at such an opportune time?
5. Explain the key tenet that involved the complex doctrine of the Trinity.
6. How did Christianity promote a new culture among its followers?
7. What role did monk play in early Christian history?
8. After the Roman Empire fell, where did Christianity spread?
Section II - Vocabulary: Define the following key terms in the center column and then give a
detailed description of their importance to World History.
Term
Definition
Significance
1. Jesus of Nazareth
2. Paul
3. Pope
4. Benedict