2. The decline of Rome occurred over a period of four centuries, culminating in what year, when Romulus Augustus, the last Emperor of the Western Roman Empire, was deposed by Odoacer?
(a) 90 A.D.
(b) 476 A.D.
(c) 12 B.C.
(d) 123 A.D.

3. Who did Christopher Columbus persuade to finance his search for a New World?
(a) Queen Elizabeth.
(b) King Henry IV.
(c) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(d) Queen Isabella.

4. Who backed the losing side of a power struggle and was jailed and executed in 524 A.D.?
(a) Archimedes.
(b) Prince Henry the Navigator.
(c) Ancius Boethius.
(d) Marco Polo.

5. With the conquest of Alexander the Great, the Greeks gained access to what?
(a) The Roman story of creation.
(b) The Mesopotanian history books.
(c) The Dead Sea scrolls.
(d) Babylonian astronomical records.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the resistance of any physical object to a change in its state of motion or rest, or the tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion?

2. What foremost astronomer of the sixteenth century proved Aristotle wrong in 1577?

3. When was Claudius Ptolemy born?

4. When was the conquest of Alexander the Great?

5. When was Isaac Newton born?

(see the answer key)

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