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Reminder: To show your personal understanding, all assignment responses must be in your own words unless quoting a source.
01.07 Collapse of an Empire Assessment – Byzantine Brackets
Name:
Date:
Step 1: Identify four different reasons that answer the question and rank them in the spaces provided.
Question: What were the biggest causes of the decline of the Byzantine Empire?
List your causes here. For each one, name it and briefly explain how it contributed to the decline.
1. Justinian plague
2. Military
3. Political
4. Crusades
Step 2: Compare the causes and choose a winner. Explain in 2-3 complete sentences
, summarizing specific information from the lesson, why you chose that cause over the other.
First Round – Fill in the causes you wrote above
Identify which cause won and explain why you thought it was a bigger cause of the decline of the Byzantines.
Cause 1 vs Cause 4
→
Justinian plague
Winner 1 and explanation: This is the winner because he left constant wars with the byzantines.
Cause 2 vs Cause 3 →
Crusades
Winner 2 and explanation: They won because they were attacking to take over the land
Step 3: Compare the winners of the first round to identify the cause you found most significant. Final Round – What cause wins between Winner 1 and Winner 2 above and why?
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Reminder: To show your personal understanding, all assignment responses must be in your own words unless quoting a source.
Overall winner and your explanation:
Crusades because they had a more effective attack the byzantine leave rather than the plague was just multiple attacks leaving them with financial problems
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