8th Grade History

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  

1. Who was in the first triumvirate? Caesar, Crassus, and Pompey Crassus, Boudica, and Hannibal Caesar, Cleopatra, and Alexander the Great 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 plebians finally took power the plague struck Europe the tribes restored Rome major cities declined

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

6. What was the code of chivalry? a code of behavior for knights a code for sending secret messages to different estates a code of tactics to use in battle 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? William the Conquerer Germanic tribes Napoleon Joan of Arc

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

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