Quiz 8: The Decline of the Roman Empire

1: In 285 AD, the Roman Emperor Diocletian divided the Empire in two parts, named��.

A) The Northern and Southern Empires
B) The European and Asian Empires
C) The Western and Eastern Empires
D) The African and European Empires
E) The Asian and African Empires

2: Attila led which of these barbarian tribes in an invasion of the Roman Empire?

A) The Visigoths
B) The Ostrogoths
C) The Franks
D) The Huns
E) The Avars

3: Name the barbarian tribe that established a kingdom in North Africa and sacked Rome in 455 AD

A) The Visigoths
B) The Huns
C) The Thugs
D) The Delinquents
E) The Vandals

4: Which of the following barbarian tribes that invaded the Roman Empire did not speak a Germanic language?

A) The Visigoths
B) The Huns
C) The Vandals
D) The Saxons
E) The Sueves

5: Which of the following groups did not invade the British Isles?

A) The Ostrogoths
B) The Celts
C) The Saxons
D) The Normans
E) The Angles

6: Which of the following has not been cited by historians as a cause of the decline of the Roman Empire?

A) Plagues
B) Invasions
C) The rise of Christianity
D) Devaluation of the curency
E) The military coup of Julius Caesar

7: The Eastern Roman Empire was governed from��

A) Antioch
B) Jerusalem
C) Athens
D) Constantinople
E) Alexandria

8: Historians refer to the Eastern Roman Empire during the Medieval period as the�..

A) Holy Roman Empire
B) Sultanate of Rum
C) Byzantine Empire
D) The Caliphate
E) The Ottoman Empire

9: Which of the following languages gradually replaced Latin as the main language of the Eastern Roman Empire?

A) Italian
B) German
C) English
D) Greek
E) Aramaic

10: The Eastern Roman Empire outlasted the Western Roman Empire for 1,000 years, but was finally destroyed by�..

A) The Mongols
B) The Arabs
C) The Russians
D) The Turks
E) The Christians