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Final Exam 8th World History
Contributed by: Hightower
  • 1. a form of government in which its citizens vote for its leader
A) legion
B) republic
C) Etruscans
D) Aeneas
E) Apennines
  • 2. the Trojan hero of the epic the Aeneid
A) legion
B) Aeneas
C) Etruscans
D) Apennines
E) republic
  • 3. a people that played a major role in shaping Roman civiliza
A) Apennines
B) Etruscans
C) republic
D) legion
E) Aeneas
  • 4. the mountain range that runs the length of Italy
A) legion
B) Apennines
C) republic
D) Aeneas
E) Etruscans
  • 5. a group of 6,000 soldiers
A) legion
B) Apennines
C) Etruscans
D) republic
E) Aeneas
  • 6. a large farming estate
A) anatomy
B) satire
C) rhetoric
D) Actium
E) latifundia
  • 7. the battle in which Octavian defeated Antony and Cleopatra
A) Actium
B) latifundia
C) anatomy
D) rhetoric
E) satire
  • 8. works that poke fun at human weaknesses
A) satire
B) Actium
C) rhetoric
D) anatomy
E) latifundia
  • 9. the study of body structure
A) latifundia
B) satire
C) anatomy
D) rhetoric
E) Actium
  • 10. public speaking
A) Actium
B) satire
C) anatomy
D) rhetoric
E) latifundia
  • 11. poem that expresses strong emotions about life
A) gladiator
B) reform
C) ode
D) Constantine
E) apostle
  • 12. person who fought animals and other people as public amusement
A) reform
B) ode
C) Constantine
D) gladiator
E) apostle
  • 13. moved the capital from Rome to a city renamed for him
A) reform
B) ode
C) apostle
D) Constantine
E) gladiator
  • 14. a political change to make things better
A) Constantine
B) gladiator
C) ode
D) reform
E) apostle
  • 15. an early Christian leader who helped set up churches
A) ode
B) gladiator
C) reform
D) Constantine
E) apostle
  • 16. a story that uses everyday life events to express spiritual ideas
A) resurrection
B) salvation
C) disciple
D) clergy
E) parable
  • 17. to rise from the dead
A) salvation
B) parable
C) disciple
D) clergy
E) resurrection
  • 18. to be saved from sin and allowed to enter heaven
A) parable
B) clergy
C) salvation
D) disciple
E) resurrection
  • 19. one of the 12 followers of Jesus
A) salvation
B) parable
C) clergy
D) resurrection
E) disciple
  • 20. leaders of the church
A) salvation
B) clergy
C) disciple
D) parable
E) resurrection
  • 21. the official church teaching
A) Bedouin
B) caravan
C) Quran
D) oasis
E) doctrine
  • 22. a group of traveling merchants and animals
A) oasis
B) Quran
C) caravan
D) Bedouin
E) doctrine
  • 23. the holy book of Islam
A) oasis
B) doctrine
C) Quran
D) caravan
E) Bedouin
  • 24. a desert herder who went from place to place
A) doctrine
B) caravan
C) Bedouin
D) Quran
E) oasis
  • 25. a green area fed by underground water
A) Bedouin
B) doctrine
C) oasis
D) Quran
E) caravan
  • 26. the head of a tribe
A) Wendi
B) sultan
C) caliph
D) warlord
E) sheikh
  • 27. means “holder of power”
A) warlord
B) sheikh
C) caliph
D) Wendi
E) sultan
  • 28. successor to the Messenger of God
A) caliph
B) Wendi
C) sultan
D) sheikh
E) warlord
  • 29. the general and emperor who founded the Sui dynasty
A) caliph
B) sheikh
C) sultan
D) warlord
E) Wendi
  • 30. a military leader who runs the government
A) Wendi
B) caliph
C) sheikh
D) warlord
E) sultan
  • 31. an organized way in which people produce, sell, and buy things
A) economy
B) monasteries
C) barbarian
D) Empress Wu
E) census
  • 32. the only woman in Chinese history to rule a country on her own
A) census
B) barbarian
C) economy
D) monasteries
E) Empress Wu
  • 33. a place where Buddhist monks and nuns meditated and worshiped
A) Empress Wu
B) monasteries
C) barbarian
D) census
E) economy
  • 34. an uncivilized person
A) monasteries
B) economy
C) census
D) Empress Wu
E) barbarian
  • 35. counts the number of people
A) monasteries
B) economy
C) census
D) barbarian
E) Empress Wu
  • 36. a storyteller
A) Axum
B) Sunni Ali
C) plateau
D) griot
E) dhow
  • 37. the city-state that owed its power to its location on the Red Sea
A) dhow
B) griot
C) Axum
D) plateau
E) Sunni Ali
  • 38. an area of high flat land
A) griot
B) Axum
C) dhow
D) plateau
E) Sunni Ali
  • 39. the sailboat invented by Arab traders
A) Sunni Ali
B) Axum
C) dhow
D) griot
E) plateau
  • 40. He stormed into Timbuktu and drove out the Berbers.
A) Sunni Ali
B) Axum
C) plateau
D) dhow
E) griot
  • 41. Songhai leader who built the largest empire in medieval West Africa
A) animism
B) sultan
C) Jimmu
D) Askia Muhammad
E) shrine
  • 42. a leader of a group of people
A) shrine
B) Jimmu
C) animism
D) Askia Muhammad
E) sultan
  • 43. Yamato leader who took the title “emperor of heaven”
A) Askia Muhammad
B) animism
C) sultan
D) Jimmu
E) shrine
  • 44. a holy place
A) Jimmu
B) sultan
C) Askia Muhammad
D) shrine
E) animism
  • 45. the belief that all things have a spirit
A) shrine
B) Askia Muhammad
C) sultan
D) Jimmu
E) animism
  • 46. a group of families related by blood or marriage
A) daimyo
B) constitution
C) clan
D) vassal
E) Flanders
  • 47. a plan of government
A) clan
B) constitution
C) daimyo
D) Flanders
E) vassal
  • 48. a warrior who pledged loyalty to a powerful military lord
A) daimyo
B) constitution
C) Flanders
D) vassal
E) clan
  • 49. a powerful military lord
A) vassal
B) Flanders
C) daimyo
D) constitution
E) clan
  • 50. the center of trade in northern Europe
A) clan
B) vassal
C) Flanders
D) constitution
E) daimyo
  • 51. a warrior in armor who fought on horseback
A) serf
B) fief
C) Venice
D) Normandy
E) knight
  • 52. land granted to a vassal, or knight
A) Venice
B) knight
C) fief
D) Normandy
E) serf
  • 53. Italian city that was a major trading center
A) fief
B) Venice
C) Normandy
D) serf
E) knight
  • 54. a person who worked the lord’s land
A) fief
B) serf
C) Normandy
D) knight
E) Venice
  • 55. a region named for the Norsemen who ruled it
A) serf
B) Venice
C) Normandy
D) fief
E) knight
  • 56. people ordained as priests
A) fief
B) serf
C) clergy
D) Venice
E) knight
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