Unit 8 Quiz 8th (2025)

Question 1

What are Latin American countries and Haiti’s wars being caused by?

Accepted Answer

Gang violence

Question 2

What was the meeting to discuss making sure Holocaust levels of violence never happen again?

Accepted Answer

The Geneva Convention

Question 3

T/F: How we treat criminals shows how we are just as violent as we have always been.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 4

What is the name of the war that the U.S. was in for 20 years?

Accepted Answer

War on Terror

Question 5

T/F: Over the past 5000 years of human civilization, has human society become more ethical is our essential question

Accepted Answer

True

Question 6

What did the Geneva Convention create?

Accepted Answer

The idea of War Crimes

Question 7

What is corporal punishment?

Accepted Answer

All of the answers

Question 8

What do we call the borderline apocalyptic time in Medieval Europe?

Accepted Answer

Dark Ages

Question 9

T/F: Not every country has drones

Accepted Answer

True

Question 10

What does it mean to be “ethical”

Accepted Answer

Say that it is “right/good”

Question 11

How do War Crimes prove we have become less violent? (Select All That Apply)

Accepted Answer

We recognize that unnecessary violence should be avoided at all costs, We recognize there are rules to how wars should be fought

Question 12

What is the world’s oldest sport?

Accepted Answer

Boxing

Question 13

What is one reason why we are just as violent as we have always been?

Accepted Answer

Humans still kill each other every day

Question 14

T/F: Drone strikes are a way we have become less violent

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What was the first written code of law?

Accepted Answer

Code of Hammurabi

Question 16

T/F: The US does not use the death penalty anymore

Accepted Answer

False

Question 17

What is the first way we have become LESS violent over time?

Accepted Answer

Rules on warfare

Question 18

How does how we spend our free time show that we are still just as violent? (Select all that apply)

Accepted Answer

Football, MMA, Boxing

Question 19

What is ethics?

Accepted Answer

The study of right and wrong

Question 20

What was the code of Hammurabi? (Select all that apply)

Accepted Answer

Details violent punishments for breaking laws, A stone pillar with hundreds of laws written on it, First written laws

Question 21

When were our last troops pulled out of Afghanistan

Accepted Answer

August 30, 2021

Question 22

T/F: Wars have become shorter which is a sign that we are less violent

Accepted Answer

True

Question 23

Select all the issues during the Dark Ages:

Accepted Answer

People robbed, stole, and killed each other all the time, Local lords organized armies and fought each other, Europe was a state of lawlessness, Life was about death and despair

Question 24

What date/event led to us starting the War on Terror

Accepted Answer

September 11, 2001

Question 25

What were some of the harsh punishments from the Code of Hammurabi?

Accepted Answer

All of the answers

Unit 8 Quiz 8th (2025)

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Unit 8 Quiz 8th (2025)

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