Ch 9 Vocabulary Test World History 8th
  • 1. - A Roman writer who drew some of his ideas from Homer’s odyssey and has an epic poem called the Aeneid.
A) Virgil
B) Spartacus
C) Galen
D) Horace
E) Ptolemy
  • 2. - The poet who used Greek models to write satires and he composed odes.
A) Galen
B) Virgil
C) Horace
D) Spartacus
E) Ptolemy
  • 3. - A Greek doctor who brought many medical ideas to Rome and emphasized the importance of anatomy.
A) Spartacus
B) Horace
C) Galen
D) Virgil
E) Ptolemy
  • 4. - Another important scientist of the Roman Empire who studied the sky and mapped different stars.
A) Galen
B) Ptolemy
C) Spartacus
D) Horace
E) Virgil
  • 5. - A gladiator who led a slave revolt in Italy in 73 B.C..
A) Ptolemy
B) Horace
C) Galen
D) Virgil
E) Spartacus
  • 6. - A curved ceiling
A) Ode
B) Anatomy
C) Vault
D) Forum
E) Satire
  • 7. - Works that poked fun at human weaknesses.
A) Satire
B) Vault
C) Forum
D) Ode
E) Anatomy
  • 8. - Poems that express strong emotions about life.
A) Satire
B) Forum
C) Anatomy
D) Vault
E) Ode
  • 9. - The study of body structure.
A) Vault
B) Ode
C) Anatomy
D) Forum
E) Satire
  • 10. - An open space that served as a marketplace and public square.
A) Ode
B) Forum
C) Vault
D) Anatomy
E) Satire
  • 11. - People who fought animals and each other, most were enslaved people, criminals, or poor people.
A) Constantine
B) Rhetoric
C) Paterfamilias
D) Gladiator
E) Diocletian
  • 12. - “father of the family,” he had complete control over family members.
A) Gladiator
B) Rhetoric
C) Diocletian
D) Constantine
E) Paterfamilias
  • 13. - Public speaking. Boys learned this in school along with reading and writing.
A) Paterfamilias
B) Diocletian
C) Rhetoric
D) Gladiator
E) Constantine
  • 14. - A general who became an emperor in A.D. 284. He introduced reforms to stop the empire’s decline.
A) Constantine
B) Paterfamilias
C) Rhetoric
D) Diocletian
E) Gladiator
  • 15. - Another general who became emperor in A.D. 312 after a period of conflict when Diocletian retired from office.
A) Gladiator
B) Diocletian
C) Rhetoric
D) Constantine
E) Paterfamilias
  • 16. - A new emperor who finally gained control and ended the fighting after Constantine died in A.D. 337.
A) Inflation
B) Plaque
C) Odoacer
D) Alaric
E) Theodosius
  • 17. - The Visigoth leader who him and his soldiers captured Rome itself in A.D. 410.
A) Alaric
B) Plaque
C) Inflation
D) Odoacer
E) Theodosius
  • 18. - A Germanic general who took control and overthrew the western empire in A.D. 476.
A) Alaric
B) Theodosius
C) Inflation
D) Odoacer
E) Plaque
  • 19. - A disease that spreads widely.
A) Inflation
B) Alaric
C) Theodosius
D) Odoacer
E) Plaque
  • 20. - Rapidly increasing prices.
A) Theodosius
B) Inflation
C) Odoacer
D) Alaric
E) Plaque
  • 21. - Exchange goods without using money.
A) Theodora
B) Barter
C) Reform
D) Justinian
E) Belisarius
  • 22. - Political changes to make things better.
A) Reform
B) Belisarius
C) Barter
D) Justinian
E) Theodora
  • 23. - Became emperor of the Byzantine Empire in A.D. 527 and ruled until A.D. 565.
A) Reform
B) Justinian
C) Barter
D) Theodora
E) Belisarius
  • 24. - Justinian’s wife, the empress, who helped him run the empire.
A) Barter
B) Belisarius
C) Reform
D) Theodora
E) Justinian
  • 25. - The general who Justinian ordered to strengthen and lead the Byzantine army.
A) Barter
B) Theodora
C) Justinian
D) Reform
E) Belisarius
  • 26. - A person who led an ordered group of legal scholars to reform the law code.
A) Regent
B) Tribonian
C) Theodora
D) Saint
E) Mosaic
  • 27. - Pictures made from many bits of colored glass or stone.
A) Regent
B) Theodora
C) Tribonian
D) Mosaic
E) Saint
  • 28. - Christian holy people.
A) Theodora
B) Saint
C) Tribonian
D) Mosaic
E) Regent
  • 29. - A person who stands in for a ruler who is too young or too ill to govern.
A) Tribonian
B) Mosaic
C) Saint
D) Theodora
E) Regent
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