Byzantine Empire

Locate and Label the following:

Balkans

Egypt

Italy

Asia Minor

Syria

Islamic Caliphates

Sicily

Constantinople

Kiev

Sweden

Dnieper River

Poland

Holy Roman Empire

Croatia

Bulgaria

Serbia

Albania

Hungary

Jerusalem

All the Water

In a different color, write the name of each of the following groups:

Visigoths

Bulgars

Franks

Persians

Slavs

Turks

Mongols

Vandals

Bedouins

Berbers

Rus

Color in the following areas:

  • Lands remaining in the Byzantine Empire around 1000 CE
  • Slavic Homeland around 1000 CE
  • Russian lands around 1000 CE
  • Label the Baltic (Viking)Trade route

Make a Key

Questions:

  1. In 565, on which continents were the Byzantine Empire located?
  2. What areas remained a part of the empire in 1000 CE?
  3. What was traded along the Baltic Trade routes?
  4. Compare the boundaries of the Roman empire in 500 with the Byzantine Empire in 565. How would you explain similarities and differences?
  5. Which areas had the greatest impact on the Byzantine Empire? Which areas did the Byzantine Empire affect?

Charlemagne’s Empire

Locate and label the following:

Spain

Slavs

PyreneesMountains

England

Avars

RhineRiver

RhoneRiver

Scandinavia

Corsica

Saxons

Rome

ElbeRiver

DanubeRiver

  • The dark line is Charlemagne’s Empire in 814, shade in the areas he conquered between 768-814.
  • Draw dotted lines to show how the empire was divided in the Treaty of Verdun
  • Make a Key
  • Questions:
  • What present-day nations make up the main part of Charlemagne’s empire?
  • What was the purpose of the Treaty of Verdun? Did it fulfill its purpose? Explain.
  • How did the partition of Charlemagne’s empire lead to the emergence of feudalism?

Europe at the Time of the Crusades

Label each of the following:

  1. Nations that were north of the European Muslim lands: ______
  2. Empire whose capital was Constantinople: ______
  3. Port at the juncture of the Black and Mediterranean Sea: ______
  4. Kingdom south of the Holy Roman Empire: ______
  5. City that was the final destination of the First Crusade: ______
  6. Nation from which the Third Crusade was launched: ______
  7. City where the Fourth Crusade was assembled: ______
  • Use different colors or patterned lines to show the routes of the First and Fourth Crusades.
  • Make a Key
  • Questions:
  • Why did the Italian city states gain wealth from the Crusades?
  • Why did the Byzantine Empire threaten the Crusades?
  • Based on the map, what reasons other than religious might have motivated Europeans to try to take the Holy Land from the Muslims?