Ch 17: The Germans

The Germans came into the Roman Empire looking for a warmer climate and ____________.

• to destroy Roman cities

• to become Christians

• new grazing lands

• a new Latin alphabet

Which of these best decribes a Germanic settlement?

• Multistory apartment buildings with stores below

• Long thatched-roof houses with farmland around them

• Wooden houses crowded into narrow streets

• Brick houses around a central courtyard

In dealing with strangers, Germans behaved with _________.

• great hospitality

• cruelty and destruction

• suspicion and hostility

• fear and shyness

In Germanic society, people gave their greatest loyalty to _________.

• their clan

• their farm

• the gods

• courts of law

In Germanic society, the blood feud was_________.

• a way of determining guilt or innocence by water

• the memorzing of ancient laws

• a pledge that a person was telling the truth

• revenge sought by descendants of people who quarreled

Germanic courts sometimes punished people by imposing a payment called___________.

• an ordeal

• a clan

• the wergeld

• an oath

The original homes of the Goths were________.

• on the Balkan Peninsula

• in southern Gaul

• along the North African coast

• in central Asia

In order to occupy Spain, the West Goths drove out __________.

• the Ostogoths

• Spaniards and Gauls

• Gauls and Romans

• Romans and Vandals

The Vandals gained their reputation for destructiveness as _______.

• Mediterranean pirates

• invaders from central Asia

• conquerors of Spain

• soldiers in the Roman army

After 476, Rome and Italy were ruled by______.

• emperors chosen by the army

• generals and leaders of Germanic groups

• emperors chosen by the Eastern Roman Empire

• Germans who had invaded from North Africa