1) What were the most significant changes in the structure and organization of the Roman Empire from the reign of Augustus to that of Justinian?
2) What were the most significant features of the growth of the Catholic Church as an institution in the Roman world?
3) Explain how did Golden Age and Silver Age writers differ? What did the writers of each period owe to the Hellenistic world? In what manners were these writers distinctly Roman?
4) What did the church fathers have in common with one other? What did they have in common with the secular writers who preceded them?
5) What did the Christian visual arts owe to pagan art? In what manners did Christian and pagan art vary?