1. Standard: SSWH4 The student will analyze the importance of the Byzantine and Mongol empires between 450 CE and 1500 CE. a.Analyze the importance of Justinian, include the influence of the Empress Theodora, Justinian’s Code, and Justinian’s efforts to recapture the west.
Essential Question: How was the Byzantine Empire a continuation of the Roman Empire? How was it not?
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2. Give me one specific fact about the Roman Republic and one specific fact about Greece. Then tell me how Greece and Rome are different OR alike.

3. Rome Refresher Rome, located in Europe, expanded rapidly
Rome fought many peoples, one of their most important opponents was Hannibal of Carthage
Julius Caesar-good leader, expanded Rome, popular, feared by members of the Seante, and was appointed dictator for life
Augustus Caesar-first emperor of Rome
Much war, but after Augustsus, Pax Romana, time of peace in Rome