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AP World History Ch 5 Reading Study Guide #2 P. 113-127
1. What are some of the indicators that Rome was in serious decline?
2. How has the fall (and non-recovery) of Roman civilization affected the Western tradition?
3. What happened among Rome’s elites to further or accelerate the collapse?
4. How did late Roman local government arrangement foreshadow Medieval European manorialism?
5. Why did Emperor Diocletian persecute the Christians in the Roman Empire?
6. Why did Emperor Constantine support and later convert to Christianity?
7. Why did many Roman peasants actually welcome the Barbarian Germanic invaders as liberators?
8. Why was the fall of the Roman Empire and Roman civilization a much more serious affair than similar declines
in India or China?
9. Describe the achievements and civilization in the surviving Byzantine Empire.
10. What was the situation in the Middle East/Old Persian Empire after Rome fell?
11. What was the situation in the North Africa after Rome fell?
12. What was the situation in the Western Europe after Rome fell?
13. Why did Christianity and Buddhism experience such rapid growth and popularity as the Classical World
civilizations collapsed?
14. How did Buddhism change and evolve to attract more followers?
Read Document: The Popularization of Buddhism. Pg. 119
15. Why did Buddhism spread widely in China by the 6th century?
16. How do these documents suggest some of the troubles China faced after the collapse of the Han dynasty?
17. What is Mahayana Buddhism? Where did Buddhism find the most converts?
17. What was the role of the Pope in Western European Christianity?
18. How did Christianity adapt to polytheistic values among its new members?
19. How did Christianity change and evolve to attract more followers?
20. What did Benedict of Nursia do to help spread Christianity?
21. What is the definition of a “World Religion”?
Read Visualizing the Past: Religious Geography. Pg 123
22. Where are the greatest concentrations of the four major religions today?
23. How were major world religions spread?
Borrowed from Mr. Walker
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