The year that most historians feel that Rome fell.
What is that year?
100
Barbarians had values very different from those of the Romans.
What was the advice of the barbvarian mother to her son that we read about in class?
100
We spent a day analyzing paintings and sculptures in the Prado Museum in Madrid.
If we want to obtain copies of these paintings for our homes, is it very expensive to have the copies made at the Prado and mailed to us?
100
There werre three primary occupations in the Middle Ages.
What were those occupations?
100
The film that we watched on the Black Death said that a certain proportion of the population of Europe was destroyed in the 14th century by the Black Death and the Hundred Years War.
What was that proportion?
200
Edward Gibbon wrote, "ther victorious legions in distant wars acquired the vices of strangers and mercenaries [and] oppessed the freedom of the republic. . . . The emperors were reduced to the expedient of corrupting the discipline of the legions that had once made them formidable to their enemies."
What is the general cause of the fall of Rome to which Gibbon is pointing
200
One reason for the fall of Rome was that the Empire became larger and larger, more difficult to defend and administer.
Hiow much did the number of provinces in the Roman Empire go up between 0 and 300 AD?
200
Both Christians and Muslims said taht a great power was on their side during the Crusades.
What was that power?
200
Fleas carried the infections of the Black Death across Europe. Two creatures were especially responsible for carrying the fleas that moved to infect other people.
What were those two creatures?
300
One source that we read stated that "As for the lower and poorer classes, some spend the whole night in the wine shops. Some concealed in the shady arcades of the theaters. They play at dice so eagerly as to quarrel voer them Sjuchj pursuits as these prevent anything worth mentioning from being done in Rome."
What are three ways that this view of the fall of Rome relates to the United States today?
300
We analyzed "The old Man in Sorrow" by Vincent van Gogh.
What are three ways that we see in this painting that sorrow grips the old man.
300
In contrast to the images that many people have of the Vikings, in fact they followed many professional paths.
What were four primary occupations of the Vikings?
300
A central source of ideas tended to give unity to people throughout the Middle Ages.
What was that source of unity?
300
There was one agemt tjat was the most basic cause of the Black Death.
What was that agent?
400
Taxes became very high in the Roman Empire.
What were three destructive ways that Romans dealt with high taxes?
400
The wages paid to soldiers and the value of silver in Roman coins changed greatly in the last centuries of the Empire.
What was the relationship between the wages of soldiers and the value of the silver in Roman coins?
400
We have a traditional literature that shows the Vikings as ruthless raiders.
What is the most important reason that we discussed in class that we have this image of the Vikings?
400
Historians have found at least four positive effects of the Black Death.
What were those four positive effects?
500
The Vikings, the Bysantine Empire, the Muslim Empire, the Huns and the Ostrogoths.
What were two groups that attacked the Roman Empire, and from what directions did they attack?
500
Charlemagne came after the fall of Rome, in some ways recreating the old Roman Empire.
Name four policies of Charlemagne that changed Europe.
500
The Vikings had to leave Greenland by about 1450.
Why did the Vikings have to abandon Greenland.
500
The Black Death had three major impacts on the societies of Europe.