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WorksheetsWorld History II Review
Total questions: 27
Worksheet time: 14mins
What was a military division of the Roman army called?
Legion
Republic
Dictator
Phalanx
What were a people who emphasized duty, strength, and discipline called?
Alexander the Great
Peloponnesian
Spartans
Patricians
What was the war fought between Athens and Sparta called?
Ionian Revolt
Persian War
Punic Wars
Peloponnesian War
A chief magistrate with absolute power, appointed in an emergency was called a...
Senator
Consul
Dictator
Tribune
Aristotle taught who?
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Hannibal
Pericles
Who led a force of more than 50,000 soldiers and 60 elephants across the Alps to invade Italy?
Leonidus
Alexander the Great
Julius Caesar
Hannibal
Who were the wealthy, aristocratic landowners who held most of the power in the early republic?
Spartans
Patricians
Peloponnesians
Plebeians
What is a state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch called?
Republic
Monarchy
Aristocracy
Oligarchy
The ancient Romans borrowed their mythology from ancient Egypt.
True
False
The Patricians were wealthy and well born and the Plebeians were the poorer members of society.
True
False
The Roman Civil War gave Rome control over the Mediterranean.
True
False
Julius Caesar was the first emperor of Rome.
True
False
Slaves were not considered citizens of the Roman Republic.
True
False
The Romans, in their early history, had an elected Senate. What form of government is this?
Direct democracy
Dictatorship
Republic
Patriarchy
Rome is at the center of the Apennine Peninsula in the center of this geographic feature important for trade. What is the name of the body of water that Italy is centrally located on?
The Atlantic Ocean
The Mediterranean Sea
The Ionian Sea
The Sahara Desert
What did the Romans do to conquered peoples to make them a part of the empire?
Forced slavery
Provided protection
Removal from lands
Killed them in war
What group spread Roman culture more than any other did?
Roman legions
Roman senate
Roman explorers
Roman philosophers
Which philosopher was condemned to death for “corrupting the youth of Athens” and “neglecting the city’s gods”?
Plato
Aristotle
Socrates
Mr. Randy
Who wrote The Republic, a book that set forth his vision of a perfectly governed society?
Plato
Pericles
Socrates
Ms. Fisher
What was Greece’s largest island?
Rhodes
Marathon
Crete
Knossos
What sea separates Greece from Asia Minor?
Mediterranean
Ionian
Aegean
all of the above
Which is Greece’s easternmost city?
Byzantium
Pella
Troy
Athens
Troy lay near what narrow waterway that separates Europe from Asia Minor?
Sea of Marmara
Aegean Sea
Ionian Sea
Dardanelles
In which form of government did social status play a role?
monarchy
aristocracy
oligarchy
direct democracy
What form of government was practiced in Sparta?
monarchy
aristocracy
oligarchy
direct democracy
Where was monarchy the form of government by 2000 B.C.?
Athens
Mycenae
Sparta
all of the above
Which form of government sometimes had a ruler who claimed divine right?
monarchy
aristocracy
oligarchy
direct democracy
