8th Grade History

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Who was in the first triumvirate? Caesar, Cleopatra, and Alexander the Great Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey Crassus, Boudica, and Hannibal Pompey, Spartacus, and Augustus

2. What was the Pax Romana? a time of great warfare a time of peace and prosperity for Rome when the Emperor was overthrown a great fire that swept through Rome destroying most of the city

3. English is a Romance language: that is, it belongs to the group (or family) of languages derived from Latin. True False

4. When Germanic tribes invaded the Roman Empire they had three consequences: trade was disrupted, population shifted, and ... the plague struck Europe the plebians finally took power major cities declined the tribes restored Rome

5. What ended the civil war between Charlemagne's three grandsons, Charles the Bald, Lothair, and Louis the German? Treaty of Paris nothing Magna Carta Treaty of Verdun

6. What was the code of chivalry? a code of tactics to use in battle a code of behavior for knights a code for sending secret messages to different estates a code that did absolutly nothing

7. What was the religion of Byzantium? Eastern Orthodox Protestantism Catholicism Islam

8. Who was the last to invade England from the water? Napoleon Joan of Arc Germanic tribes William the Conquerer

9. What was the effect of the Crusades? legacy of hatred neither of these increased Muslim technology both of these

10. Humanism came from studying the classical texts of the Greeks and Romans. True False