Test 1

Question 1

What 3 things made the location of the Roman Empire special?

Answer 1

Apennine Mountains, Rich Soil, Access to the Sea

Question 2

How did the Roman army advance?

Answer 2

In an turtle shape

Question 3

What were the two forms of discipline?

Answer 3

Cat-o-nine-tails and decimation

Question 4

Vocabulary- Gladius

Answer 4

Short sword

Question 5

Vocabulary- Corvus

Answer 5

Boat ladder

Question 6

What did Hannibal do?

Answer 6

Brought soldiers and elephants.

Question 7

Vocabulary- Aqueducts

Answer 7

Carry water

Question 8

Vocabulary- Pompeii

Answer 8

City in Italy

Question 9

What were the 7 reasons for the decline of Rome?

Answer 9

Lack of morals, public health, political corruption, unemployment, inflation, military spending, and the final blow.

Question 10

What is the final blow?

Answer 10

When the barbarians came.

Question 11

Where are the Vikings from? What are the 4 countries that this includes?

Answer 11

Scandinavia- Denmark, Finland, Sweden, and Norway.

Question 12

What were some advantages of longboats?

Answer 12

Great navigation, quite, and fast.

Question 13

What was the figurehead used for?

Answer 13

To scare away enemies and monsters.

Question 14

Who was Ahmad Iban?

Answer 14

He was a diplomat, traveler, and chronicler.

Question 15

What is Ahmad famous for? (2 things)

Answer 15

Recording his experience with Rus and recording the first Viking funeral.

Question 16

Vocabulary- Valhalla

Answer 16

Viking Heaven

Question 17

What is Feudalism?

Answer 17

Dominant political economic system.

Question 18

What are the 6 social classes of feudalism in order?

Answer 18

Serf, castle, knights and nobels, church, queen, and king.

Question 19

Vocabulary- Chivalry

Answer 19

Knights code of manners

Question 20

What were castles originally used for or as?

Answer 20

A fort

Question 21

What were castles originally made from?

Answer 21

Wood and dirt

Question 22

Where is some of the best locations for a castle?

Answer 22

Cliffs, coastline, steep hillside, near a waterway, island, more

Question 23

What are the 5 offensive attacks?

Answer 23

Direct assault, siege tower, trebuchet, battery ram, and tunneling

Question 24

Vocabulary- Direct assault

Answer 24

Scale wall w/ ladders

Question 25

Vocabulary- Siege tower

Answer 25

Cover w/ raw hide. Soil seed wait inside.

Question 26

Vocabulary- Trebuchet

Answer 26

Launcher that fired stone missiles.

Question 27

Vocabulary- Battery Ram

Answer 27

To break down gatehouse. Capped w/ iron.

Question 28

Vocabulary- Tunneling (What were the men called)

Answer 28

Sappers dug tunnels underneath to sneak attack or to destabilize wall.

Question 29

What were the 6 kinds of defense?

Answer 29

Moat, turrets, archers, walls, castle keep, and gatehouse.

Question 30

Vocabulary- Moat (prevents two attacks)

Answer 30

Difficult to approach. No siege tower or battery ram.

Question 31

Vocabulary- Turrets

Answer 31

Outlook and elevation. Can’t topple over.

Question 32

Vocabulary- Archers

Answer 32

Higher positions advantage.

Question 33

Vocabulary- Walls (What does it help prevent? 2 things)

Answer 33

Ring of walls. Barrier against siege towers and battery rams.

Question 34

Vocabulary- Castle Keep

Answer 34

Used to protect king. Strongest portion.

Question 35

Vocabulary- Gatehouse

Answer 35

Iron grills and murder holes.

Question 36

What are the gatehouses iron covered grills called?

Answer 36

Portcullis

Question 37

What do the put down murder holes?

Answer 37

Burning oil and hot sand

Question 38

What are the spots archers shoot out of called?

Answer 38

Loopholes

Question 39

Cat-o-nail-tails

Answer 39

Whip with 9 nails or glass

Question 40

Decimation

Answer 40

10 people pull straws the one with the shortest gets beat to death