1.) What role did Christianity play in the changes that occurred to the Roman Empire?
2.) How are the three major monotheistic religions both alike and different?

3.) Why was the movement of goods and troops an intricate part of the spread of Islam from the beginning?

4.) What were some ways the Golden Age of Islam contributed to the development of the modern world?

5.) In what way did the Byzantine Empire constitute a continuation of the Roman Empire?

6.) In what ways was the Ottoman Empire influenced both by previous Islamic empires as well as the Byzantine Empire?

7.) What is one cause of the decline of the Byzantine Empire?

8.) What were the Crusades, and how did they serve to weaken the Byzantine Empire?

9.) What were some of the issues that split the Eastern and the Western churches?

10.) What were some of the cultural contributions of the Byzantine Empire?