Name:Class Period

Name:Class Period:

In this map activity you will see a list of maps on your right, starting at 565 and ending at 1453. Starting at 565, click on the map. READ the info below the map and proceed to answer the given questions for each map.

Directions:

• Click on:
• Click on “View in Frames”
• After viewing the “Remnants of the Roman Empire Map” click on number 2 in the left hand menu for the “Compare and Contrast map activity (on the Ipad click the link next to “site location” after clicking “compare and contrast”)
• Answer the questions on the webquest below by viewing the maps according to year, and reading the scroll of text under each map
• Part of the webquestasks you to click on number 3 in the left hand menu (dictionary link for definitions)in order to define key words mentioned in the webquest.

MAP 565

Compare map 565 to the first map that shows the Remnants of the Roman Empire, after the fall of Rome: How has the Byzantine Empire changed (it is called the Eastern Roman Empire in the Remnants of Rome map)? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

Name the Emperor during this period

What was the name of his wife?

Here are two definitions for the word depicts:

–verb (used with object)

1. to represent by or as if by painting; portray; delineate.

2. to represent or characterize in words; describe.

Which of these two definitions fits best in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest?

Compare map 668 to map 565: How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

What religion erupted causing problems for the Byzantine empire?

Here are two definitions for the word succession:

1. the coming of one person or thing after another in order, sequence, 2. In thecourse of events: many troubles in succession.

Which of these two definitions fits best in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest?

Compare map 780 to map 668: How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

What indications are given to let you know this was a more stable period?

Here are two definitions for the word antiquity:

1. something belonging to or remaining from ancient times, as monuments, relics, or customs.
2. the period of historybefore theMiddle Ages.

Which of these two definitions fits best in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest?

Compare map 1025 to map 780: How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

Who was the Emperor till his death in 1025?

Why was this period a first for the Byzantine Empire?

Here are two definitions for the word apex:

1. The tip, point, or vertex; summit.

2. Climax; peak; acme: His rise as the president was the apex of his career.

Which of these two definitions fits best in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest?

Compare map 1092 to map 1025

How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

Give 4 reasons for the reversal.

Name the able ruler since 1081:

Here are two definitions for the word unassailable:

1. not open to attack or assault, as by military force or argument: unassailable fortifications; unassailable logic.

2. not subject to denial or dispute: Shakespeare's genius gives his works an unassailable position in worldliterature.

Which of these two definitions fits best in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest?

Compare map 1143 to map 1092

How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

Name the ruler during this time period.

He was the son of which ruler? And what did these father and son rulers do for the Byzantine Empire?

Here is another word: exploit

This time you have to find, on your own, the best definition in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest:

Compare map 1218 to map 1143

How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

What event wrought disaster on the Byzantine Empire?

The Byzantine Empire hung on by developing this empire, name that empire.

Here are two definitions for the word wrought:

1. elaborated; embellished.
2. produced or shaped by beating with a hammer, as iron or silverarticles.

Which of these two definitions fits best in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest?

Compare map 1278 to map 1218

How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

Name the Emperor during this time period:

The closing decades of the 13th century marked what for the Byzantine Empire?

What important capital was recaptured?

Here are two definitions for the word culminating

1. to reach thehighest point, summit, or highest development (usually followed by in ).

2. to end or arrive at a final stage (usually followed by in ): The argument culminated in a fistfight.

Which of these two definitions fits best in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest?

Compare map 1350 to map 1278

How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

Give four reasons for the Byzantine Empire’s political decline:

Here is another word: terminal

This time you have to find, on your own, the best definition in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest:

Compare map 1453 to map 1350

How has the Byzantine Empire changed? Was this a good period for this empire or a bad one? Why?

Which empire has taken now taken over the Byzantine Empire?

What was the date (month, day, and year) of the Byzantine’s last ditch attempt to remain an Empire, which failed, marking the end of the empire?

Here is another word: anomaly:

This time you have to find, on your own, the best definition in the context of the sentence presented to you in this web quest:

Just so you know, as the Muslims in 1453 were conquering the city, they asked the Byzantine Emperor if he would like to surrender. He chose to fight and die instead, like a Roman warrior:

“Constantine XI Palaiologos was last seen casting off his imperial regalia and throwing himself into hand to hand combat after the walls were taken off” (the walls around Constantinople)

Rubric

Due Date: Wednesday, September 25th, 2013

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