Checkpoint #73(1-7)
• 6.69 – Analyze the events and circumstances that led to the decline and eventual
collapse of Rome
1. Which emperor relocated the capital of the Roman Empire the modern-day county of
Turkey?
a. Diocletian
b. Constantine
c. Romulus Augustus
d. Alexander
2. Emperor Theodosius split the empire in two section in 395. They were identified as the
______________ and the ______________ empires.
a. Northern; Southern
b. Western; Eastern
c. Old; New
d. Holy Roman empire; Frankish
3. How did the Romans try to deal with the growing threat of Germanic tribes invading
Roman territories?
a. They let them settle in land just inside the border
b. They attacked them
c. They built a wall to keep them out
d. They enslaved all the men
4. Who were many of the Germanic tribes fleeing from
in the 300s?
a. Persians
b. Greeks
c. Hun
d. Mongols
5. The ____________, led by Alaric took control of the city of Rome in 410.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Huns
Visigoths
Vandals
Mongols
6. Which group lends its name to the willful
destruction of property?
a. Huns
b. Vandals
c. Goths
d. Mongols
7. In 476, a Germanic general named ________________ removed the Roman emperor
Romulus Augustus…thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
a. Atalla
b. Alaric
c. Genghis Khan
d. Odoacer
Check answers
1. Which emperor relocated the capital of the Roman Empire the modern-day county of
Turkey?
a. Diocletian
b. Constantine
c. Romulus Augustus
d. Alexander
2. Emperor Theodosius split the empire in two section in 395. They were identified as the
______________ and the ______________ empires.
a. Northern; Southern
b. Western; Eastern
c. Old; New
d. Holy Roman empire; Frankish
3. How did the Romans try to deal with the growing threat of Germanic tribes invading
Roman territories?
a. They let them settle in land just inside the border
b. They attacked them
c. They built a wall to keep them out
d. They enslaved all the men
4. Who were many of the Germanic tribes fleeing from
in the 300s?
a. Persians
b. Greeks
c. Hun
d. Mongols
5. The ____________, led by Alaric took control of the city of Rome in 410.
a.
b.
c.
d.
Huns
Visigoths
Vandals
Mongols
6. Which group lends its name to the willful
destruction of property?
a. Huns
b. Vandals
c. Goths
d. Mongols
7. In 476, a Germanic general named ________________ removed the Roman emperor
Romulus Augustus…thus ending the Western Roman Empire.
a. Atalla
b. Alaric
c. Genghis Khan
d. Odoacer