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WorksheetsRoman and Byzantine history quiz for Leibner
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 28mins
Rome throughout most of it's history primarily spoke...
Italian
Latin
Greek
Sicilian
Rome was situated on the seven hills next to...
The Danube river
The Tiber river
The Po river
The Rubicon river
Rome was initially a...
Kingdom
Direct democracy
Republic
Empire
The Romans became a republic after...
The last king was deposed for being a tyrant so they wanted to stop that from happening again by creating a Republic
They had no succesor to the throne so instated a republic to avaid a succesion crisis and any future ones
The last king thought it was iresponsable for one person to have all of the power so he created the sentate and resigned
What were the responsabilities of the consuls in the republic? Select all that apply.
TO command the military
To dismiss senators from office
To oversee the senate during procedings
To represent the republic in foreign affairs
T
The common people were the refered to as the...
Bourgoise
Patrikos
Patricians
Plebians
The plebians could vote in the elections of sentators.
True
False
Who was the senior god of the roman religeon
Ra
Jupiter
Zues
Odin
During the Pyyrhic war the term "pyyrhic victory" was coined when Pyyrhus won a victory against Rome in a battle. What does pyyrhic victory mean mean?
To win completely
To win but at such a cost it's a loss
To win an even and well fought fight
To win to the peoint your opponents moral is destroyed
Where was the first punic war faught?
Africa
Iberia
Sicily
Italy
Who was the general who crossed the alps during the second punic war?
Julius Ceasar
Scipio
Hasdrubal
Hannibal
what was the result of the second punic war?
It ended inconclusivly
It ended with Rome sacking carthage
Carthage became a subject of Rome
Carthage won and took territory from rome
What allowed Rome to conquer Greece so easily
The endless divisions of city states made it dificult to cooperate
The Greek religeon promoted pacifism
The Greeks were willing to become a part of Rome in extange for protection
greece was very peaceful and they had little experience in war
Who were the three members of the political alliance Known as the first triumvirate
Augustus
Ceasar
Pompey
Crassus
Where did Ceasar conquer to gain wealth power and respect after the break up of the first triumvirate
Illyria
Gaul
Parthia
Egypt
Julius Ceasar was the first emporer of rome
True
False
Ceasar was killed by the senate of the Ides of ...
May
March
July
August
Who was Ceasar's adopted son who became the first emperor and later took the name Augustus Ceasar
Lucius
Antony
Occtavian
Pompey
What is the period from the creation if the Empire to roughly 200 AD refered to as?
The 3rd centurty crisis
The Pax romana
The roman golden age
The age of absolutism
What was the name of the guard Julius created to protect the emporer
The royal guard
The king's guard
The Preatorian guard
The Honor Guard
The roman military was divided into armies of 6000-8000 troops. What were these armies called?
Retinues
Divisions
Regiments
Legions
Who were considered the five "good emperors"
Augustus
Tiberius
Caligula
Claudius
Nero
Gaalba
Otho
Aulus Vitelius
Vespasian
Titus
Nerva
Trajan
Hadrian
Antonius Pious
Marcus Aurealius
Jesus lived in which province in the roman Empire
Aegyptus
Mesopatamia
Judea
Armenia
The colloseum was built by which emperor?
Nero
Claudius
Commodus
Caligula
Who was Rome's main rival during the pax romana?
Ptolemaic Egypt
The Macedonian empire
Parthian Persia
Selucid Persia
What made Aegyptus (Egypt) such an important province to the Romans
It's manufactories
It's recruitable population
It's gold mines
It's food production
What was the period of almost total colapse of the roman empire from 235 to 284 AD called?
The age of revolutions
The iconoclasm
Crisis of the third century
The roman dark ages
As there was less manpower to draw apon, the roman empire began to recruit which peoples into their army
The celts
The germans
The dacians
The arabs
Who split the roman empire in two permanently?
Hadrian
Trajan
Constantine
Diocletion
Who were the nomadic steppe people who showed up to the roman empire and forced germanic barbarians to seek refuge in rome, accelerating te fall of rome?
The avars
The gokturks
The mongols
The hun
What made the eastern roman empire survive while the west didn't? Select all that apply
The east was more populated and urbanized
The east had access to the silk road
The east had less dangerous and shorter borders
The east was more Christian leading to greater religious unity
Who overthrew the last emporer in the west following the battle of revena
Odoacer
Atilla
Theodoric
Abiorix
What was the main religion of the byzantine empire?
Greek pagan
Eastern orthodox christian
Roman catholic christian
Zoroastrian
The primary language of the byzantine empire was what?
Albanian
Latin
Greek
Slavic
What was the capital of byzantium
Corinth
Constantinople
Nicea
Tebizond
The byzantines used a form of succesion known as Porphyrogennetos or born in the purple. This system said that the heir was the first to be born while the emperor reigned.
True
False
What did the Iberian war between Sassanid persia and byzantium start over? Select all that apply
Byzantine expansion into arabia
Byzantine forts being built along the border
Byzantine failure to pay for the common defense of the caucasus
Byzantine rejection of the adoption of khosrow
What were the heavy cavalry used by both byzantines and persians in the late classical era called?
Heteroi
Cataphracts
Knights
Tagmata
Only 20 years after Odoacer took over italy, he was killed by Theooderic the great. He then created what kingdom?
The Visigothic kingdom
The Ostrogothic kingdom
The Vandal kingdom
The Frankish kingdom
Which barbarian group controlled north africa?
The Visigoth
The Franks
The Vandals
The Ostrogoths
Which barbarian group controlled Spain?
The visigoths
The saxons
The vandals
The ostrogoths
Who was the eastern roman emporer who reconquered Italy, North Africa and southern Spain
Justinian I
Zeno I
Theo I
Micheal I
The plague of justinian was the first recorded epidemic of what disease
H1N1
Bubonic plague
Anthrax
Smallpox
Who began to capture large amounts of land in Italy from the Eastern Romans shortly after the death of Justinian?
The frisians
The anglos
The lombards
The saxons
What was the substance that was invented by the byzantines that was used on ships as a sort of flamethrower
Pheonix oil
Greek fire
Napalm
Dragons breath
Who conquered egypt the levant and north africa from the byzantines?
The Bactrian kingdom
The Armenian empire
The Muslim Caliphate
The Safavid persian empire
What were the causes of the byzantine dark age? Select all that apply
The slavs invading the norther provinces
Islamic invasions and piracy
The loss of egypt causing food shortages
The great skism between the orthodox and catholic church
What were the causes of the byzantine golden age? Select all that apply
The recovery of anatolia
A reformed army and Govermental system
The invention of greek fire
Very capable emporers
Who invaded the byzantines in anatolia and nearly conquered the empire
The mongols
The saffavid persians
The Seljuk Turks
The Georgians
What happened at the battle of manzikert?
It was a pyyric victory for the Turks and they were only able to push into the mountains before being stopped
The Byzantines were crushed by the Turks and they were able to capture all of anatolia
The Turks were crushed by the Byzantines which allowed them to keep their holdings
It ended in a stalemate
When the Byzantine emperor asked for help from the pope, whap happened?
The Crusades began
The pope rejected his idea and constantinople was seiged
The pope sent a small token force to make it look like he was helping
When the crusaders were victorious in taking the holy land, did they return the land to the Byzantines like they Promised?
Yes
No
What happened to the byzantines following the first three crusades?
Their borders did not move
They continued to lose land except for constantinople and it's surrounding land
They recovered the whole of anatolia but not the holy land
They recovered anatolia but not entirely
What happened to the Byzantines following the fourth crusade?
They were largely uneffected because they were occupied with other matters
They were overthrown by the crusaders and the latin empire was established
They lost land to the crusaders who created more crusader states in anatolia
They were able to recover small amounts of land
Following the creation of the latin empire, what were the remnants of the Byzantine empire? Select all that apply.
The Empire of Crete
The despotate of Epirus
The Empire of Nicea
The Empire of Trebizond
Which of the remnant states of the Byzantine empire eventually overthrew the Latin empire and reestablished the Byzantine empire?
The Empire of Trebizond
The Despotate of Epirus
The Empire of Nicea
What were the two empires that began to seize territory from the byzantines in the 1300s
Wallachia
The Mamluks
Serbia
The Ottomans
What was left of the empire right before the seige of constantinople? Select all that apply
Epirus
Constantinople
Crete
The Pelopennese
When Constantinople fell, it was to who?
The Ottomans
The Venetian Republic
Serbia
Genoa
Who was the emperor who oversaw the height of the byzantine golden age and becoame known as the bulgar slayer
Leo VI
Constantine XIII
Basil II
Micheal II
