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