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Quiz about Ancient to Renaissance History
Quiz about Ancient to Renaissance History

Ancient to Renaissance History Quiz


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A multiple-choice quiz by BroadwayBaby87. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
137,371
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
15
Difficulty
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Avg Score
9 / 15
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Last 3 plays: Guest 69 (12/15), Guest 174 (15/15), Guest 104 (7/15).
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Question 1 of 15
1. What was the period in Roman History from about 27 B.C. to 180 A.D. called? Hint


Question 2 of 15
2. Where was the famous battle between Marc Antony and Augustus? Hint


Question 3 of 15
3. Who wrote the medieval stories entitled "The Canterbury Tales"? Hint


Question 4 of 15
4. Who was responsible for the death of Thomas Becket? Hint


Question 5 of 15
5. Who designed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore? Hint


Question 6 of 15
6. Which Pope sponsored Michelango to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling? Hint


Question 7 of 15
7. What were French Calvinists called? Hint


Question 8 of 15
8. Oliver Cromwell led the civil war in England against the Stuarts.


Question 9 of 15
9. In was year was the Magna Carta signed by King John?

Answer: (Year - four digits)
Question 10 of 15
10. What year was the Treaty of Verdun signed? Hint


Question 11 of 15
11. In what year did Leif Erikson visit North America? Hint


Question 12 of 15
12. This Austrian royal family was in power for many centuries including the Thirty Years' War (1618-48). Which was it? Hint


Question 13 of 15
13. Whose 95 Theses touched off the Reformation?

Answer: (First and last name)
Question 14 of 15
14. Who was the wife of Justinian, Emperor of Constantinople? Hint


Question 15 of 15
15. Who was the first ruler to establish a strong kingdom in Germanic Gaul? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What was the period in Roman History from about 27 B.C. to 180 A.D. called?

Answer: Pax Romana

The Pax Romana started when Augustus Caesar became the emperor, therefore making Rome an Empire. During the Pax Romana the 5 "good emperors" ruled. There were many developments in lifestyles, and the Roman alphabet became the basis for the western world's alphabet.
2. Where was the famous battle between Marc Antony and Augustus?

Answer: Actium

This battle took place in 31 B.C. off the West coast of Greece. Octavian became Rome's first emperor, and Augustus after defeating Marc Antony and Cleopatra's joint forces.
3. Who wrote the medieval stories entitled "The Canterbury Tales"?

Answer: Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer wrote the Canterbury tales after 1387. It is an unfinished poem in which the various members of a group of pilgrims journeying from London to the shrine of St Thomas Becket at Canterbury each tells a story in verse.
4. Who was responsible for the death of Thomas Becket?

Answer: Henry II

Henry II or Henry Plantagenet suggested to his knights that he wanted to be rid of Archbishop Thomas Becket.
5. Who designed the dome of Santa Maria del Fiore?

Answer: Brunelleschi

Fillipo Brunelleschi lived from 1377-1446 in Florence, Italy. In 1420, the he was awarded the commision to design a dome to top Florence Cathedral.
6. Which Pope sponsored Michelango to paint the Sistine Chapel ceiling?

Answer: Julius II

Michelangelo Buonarroti was commissioned by Pope Julius II della Rovere in 1508 to repaint the ceiling; the work was completed between 1508 and 1512.
7. What were French Calvinists called?

Answer: Huguenots

On St. Bartholomew's feast day, 24th August 1572, Catherine de Medici (originally from Italy, but by then the widowed Queen of France) ordered French Protestants, Huguenots, to be killed by the hundreds. Later the term 'Huguenots' was sometimes used to refer to more generally to Calvinists who were fleeing or had fled persecution.
8. Oliver Cromwell led the civil war in England against the Stuarts.

Answer: True

Oliver Cromwell led the war between the Roundheads, those on his side of the Parliament, and the Cavaliers, those on the side of the King. Cromwell and his army won and established for a brief period a republic ("commonwealth") in England.
9. In was year was the Magna Carta signed by King John?

Answer: 1215

The Magna Carta was signed in order to limit the king's power. Many barons believed that the King had become far too powerful. Contrary to widespread misunderstandings, the document didn't establish civil liberties or democracy, but in the view of many historians it established the first beginnings of the principle of the rule of law in England.
10. What year was the Treaty of Verdun signed?

Answer: 843

The Treaty of Verdun was signed in order to partition Charlemagne's crumbling empire among three sons of Louis I, the nominal "Emperor of the West".
11. In what year did Leif Erikson visit North America?

Answer: 1000

Erikson, Leif (975-1020), was an Icelandic explorer and is thought to have been the first European to have set foot on North American soil.
12. This Austrian royal family was in power for many centuries including the Thirty Years' War (1618-48). Which was it?

Answer: Habsburgs

German royal family, prominent between the 13th and 20th centuries in Europe, that included rulers of the Holy Roman Empire, Spain, and later Austria-Hungary. Famous Habsburgs include: Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain), Maria Theresa, Marie-Antoinette, Philip I (of Castille), and Philip II (of Spain).
13. Whose 95 Theses touched off the Reformation?

Answer: Martin Luther

The 95 Theses was a form of a petition against the Catholic church during Luther's time period. It listed 95 different complaints or accusations agains the church. The paper was nailed right to the wooden door of the parish church in the university city of Wittenberg, where Luther was a professor.

At the time, he hoped that the Church would reform itself and the notion of setting up a new demonination only arose in the face of complete and stubborn refusal by the Papacy to make any real reforms or even concessions.
14. Who was the wife of Justinian, Emperor of Constantinople?

Answer: Theodora

Theodora and Emperor Justinian I helped to improve Byzantium, where they built the "Haghia Sophia" (St. Sophia's Basilica), a major cathedral, and established a definitive codification of Roman law. Procopius in "The Secret History" presents a most unflattering picture of Theodora's life as a dancer prior to her marriage.

There has been much speculation about its accuracy and about the author's motives ...
15. Who was the first ruler to establish a strong kingdom in Germanic Gaul?

Answer: Clovis

The Merovingian king, Clovis (reigned, 481-511) laid the foundations of what later became the Frankish Empire. In particular, he defeated the last wannabee "Roman governor of Gaul" at the Battle of Soissons in 486,
Source: Author BroadwayBaby87

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