Daily Focus Questions Set B
The
Roman Republic
1. How did Roman religion differ from Greek religion?
2. What is a consul?
*3 How does the virtue of "gravitas" help maintain
the republic?
4.What were two Roman policies that helped them expand into
an empire?
Augustus
and Authority
5. What are two things that Augustus does to restore peace?
*6. What are the advantages of the new Augustan
administrative system?
7. How does Tacitus think Augustus managed to steal power
from the senate?
8. Consider how important Augustus's personality was to his
success, and why.
Augustus
and Government
9. Why did Augustus wish to be depicted in statues with his head covered?
*10. Consider what the purpose of the marriage laws are besides increased procreation.
11. Why was Augustus's provincial administration effective?
12. In what sense was Augustus a conservative, and in what
sense a reformer?
Islamic
Ideas
13. What are the five pillars of Islam?
*14. When is fighting or war acceptable or not?
15. Pay attention Allah's wishes in Qu'ran. What are the main concerns that God
has?
Carolingian
Empire
*16. What did the Frankish kings have to offer the pope, and
what did the pope have to offer them?
17. How and why did Charlemagne promote education in his
empire?
18. How did family and child-raising change in Carolingian
times?
Priests
and Aristocrats
19. What are two advances that help explain population
growth after the year 1000?
20. What was the difference between a slave and a serf?
*21. It makes sense to speak of "feudalism" in the
twelfth century, when the nobility became obsessed with what concerns?
Spiritual
Revolution
22. Why was there so much church
building in the middle ages?
*23. What are two main differences between Romanesque and
Gothic churches?
24. According to the author, what does the number and
variety of Gothic structures in Europe tell us about the 12th and 13th
centuries?
Crusades
25. What did Pope Urban II promise in a sermon at Clermont in 1095?
26. Who Jews attacked in the lead-up to the crusades, and why?
27. What type of person was Knight Templar?
*28. According to Raymond, [linked reading
on webpage] what sort of divine intervention was needed for the Crusaders to
beat the Turks at Antioch?