Rome

Question 1

How many years did Pax Romana last?

Answer 1

200 years

Question 2

Who reformed the city’s tax system?

Answer 2

Augustus

Question 3

Who had to pay taxes?

Answer 3

Citizens

Question 4

What did Stoics strive for in life?

Answer 4

True happiness

Question 5

What major religion was born in Rome?

Answer 5

Christianity

Question 6

What is the belief in one god called?

Answer 6

Monotheism

Question 7

What is the belief in more than one god called?

Answer 7

Polytheism

Question 8

What did the 12 tables protect citizens from?

Answer 8

Unfair treatment

Question 9

What is a citizen?

Answer 9

Someone who could participate in the government

Question 10

What is a Site of Encounter?

Answer 10

A place where people of different cultures meet to exchange ideas and goods

Question 11

What did the Romans use for trade?

Answer 11

The Silk Road and Afroeurasian trade routes

Question 12

True or False: Latin was the only language spoken in Rome

Answer 12

False; the languages of the conquered people were also used

Question 13

The the roman empire stay large for long?

Answer 13

No, the huge territory was too much to handle

Question 14

Which tribes invaded from the north?

Answer 14

Germanic

Question 15

Which tribes invaded from the east?

Answer 15

Persians

Question 16

What was the result of too many people being in the army?

Answer 16

There were not enough people left to farm

Question 17

What money was used to pay for defense?

Answer 17

Taxes from citizens

Question 18

Who divided Rome?

Answer 18

Diocletian

Question 19

What half of the empire did Diocletian rule on his own?

Answer 19

Eastern

Question 20

What did Constantine do (in relation to what his successor did)?

Answer 20

Reunited Rome

Question 21

What was the original name of the capital of Rome?

Answer 21

Byzantium

Question 22

What did Constantine change the capital’s name to?

Answer 22

Constantinople

Question 23

What were Europeans considered to be?

Answer 23

Uncivilized barbarians

Question 24

Who first invaded Rome?

Answer 24

The Goths

Question 25

What did the Romans do to convince the Goths not to attack?

Answer 25

Paid them

Question 26

Other barbarian groups after the Goths started coming in, why?

Answer 26

The knew Rome was at a weak point

Question 27

Who invaded Spain and North Africa?

Answer 27

Vandals

Question 28

Who invaded Britain?

Answer 28

Jutes, Angles, and Saxons

Question 29

Who invaded Gaul?

Answer 29

The Franks

Question 30

Why did king Clovis switch to Christianity?

Answer 30

To bring his people together

Question 31

Who was king Clovis?

Answer 31

The first medieval king of Europe

Question 32

What made Rome fall?

Answer 32

Vast empire size, political instability, weak emperors

Question 33

What type of government did Rome have?

Answer 33

A republic

Question 34

What did trade do to improve Rome?

Answer 34

Raise the standard of living

Question 35

What do AD and CE mean?

Answer 35

Anno Domini and Common Era

Question 36

What do BC and BCE mean?

Answer 36

Before Christ and Before Common Era

Question 37

What religion did Jesus originally follow?

Answer 37

Judaism

Question 38

Who did Jesus claim was his father?

Answer 38

God

Question 39

Why was Jesus crucified?

Answer 39

Jews and Romans did not like him starting his own religion

Question 40

Where was Jesus born?

Answer 40

Bethlehem

Question 41

What is the Bible made of?

Answer 41

Letters written by the apostles based on Jesus' teachings

Question 42

What were non- Christians called?

Answer 42

pagans

Question 43

What caused the Great Schism?

Answer 43

Christians having slightly different ideas of what Christianity should be

Question 44

What are the two main groups of Christians?

Answer 44

Roman Catholics and Orthodoxes

Question 45

What two new branches resulted after the reformation?

Answer 45

Catholics and Protestants

Question 46

Who is the Pope?

Answer 46

The icon of the Catholics; supreme authority

Question 47

Why were Roman emperors in the late 400s weak?

Answer 47

They fought with each other and didn't make an effort to protect the empire

Question 48

Who did Constantinople fall to?

Answer 48

The Ottomans