Section 8

Question 1

Romans referred collectively to barbarians as

Answer 1

Germans

Question 2

the late Latin word for “soldier” came to be

Answer 2

Barbarus

Question 3

homeland of the Huns

Answer 3

Mongolia

Question 4

originating from Mongolia, caused much havoc

Answer 4

Huns

Question 5

barbarian tribes who lived furthest east in Europe

Answer 5

Goths

Question 6

Eastern Goths

Answer 6

Ostrogoths

Question 7

Western Goths

Answer 7

Visigoths

Question 8

Roman Emperor _______ had little choice but to relent and let them in

Answer 8

Valens

Question 9

Valens met the Visigoths in combat at the _____________(378 CE) in northeastern Greece, and what happened was not only unexpected but unthinkable to any Roman living then, or dead. Primed by the insults to their pride—or because they were simply scared out of their minds—the Visigoths defeated and massacred the Roman legions sent to keep them in their room. Worse yet, Valens himself was killed in the course of the conflict.

Answer 9

Battle of Adrianople

Question 10

Valen’s successor, resorted to standard Roman policy and pacified the Visigoths temporarily with handouts and promises

Answer 10

Theodosius I

Question 11

Those children, _____ and _______ who were both still in their teens, were ill-prepared to hold real power

Answer 11

Arcadius, Honorius

Question 12

a strong, new leader named ______ rose to power among the Visigoths and started advancing on the West

Answer 12

Alaric

Question 13

A confederation of Germanic tribes

Answer 13

Vandals

Question 14

Germanic tribes seized the opportunity to occupy Britain, particularly the ___________________

Answer 14

Angles and Saxons

Question 15

In this infamous ____________________ (410 CE) Alaric and his comrades plundered the city for three days, a devastation which turned out to be actually less physical than psychological but, even so, a wound which went deep into the heart of an already ailing state

Answer 15

Visigothic Sack of Rome

Question 16

While barbarian in origin, the Visigoths of Spain quickly adopted Roman customs, the Latin language, and even the Christian religion, though in a heretical variation called _______________________

Answer 16

Arian Christianity (Arianism)

Question 17

saints’ biographies

Answer 17

Hagiographies

Question 18

the Vandals’ attack involved prolonged, physical ruin, a destruction so complete and indiscriminate, so emblematic of wanton atrocity, that these barbarians’ very name made its way into common parlance, and ultimately English, as a by-word for “the malicious destruction of property,” vandalism

Answer 18

Vandalic Sack of Rome

Question 19

the Huns’ new, powerful, European-born leader

Answer 19

Attila

Question 20

Attila learned that Christians in Rome had pronounced him, in traditional Old-Testament fashion, “_____________________”

Answer 20

“The Scourge of God”

Question 21

central Gaul

Answer 21

Châlons

Question 22

Roman emperor when the Huns were defeated

Answer 22

Valentinian III

Question 23

the leader of the Church, __________________, not only stood his ground but went to face down Attila in person

Answer 23

Pope Leo I

Question 24

German general ________________ deposed the “last Roman Emperor

Answer 24

Odovacar

Question 25

the last roman emperor

Answer 25

Romulus Augustulus

Question 26

the leader of the Ostrogoths who had at last been liberated from Hunnic dominion

Answer 26

Theodoric

Question 27

Theodoric’s secretary, an orthodox Christian, dominate the accounts of his regime—Theodoric ultimately had him executed

Answer 27

Boethius

Question 28

Boethius’ successor to the post of secretary

Answer 28

Cassiodorus

Question 29

he pre-eminent classical historian of England in the later half of the eighteenth century

Answer 29

Edward Gibbon

Question 30

book written. by Edward Gibbon

Answer 30

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire