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The origins of the Modern World

Question 1 of 41

1

Who rejected Christopher Columbus's project?

Select one of the following:

  • Portugal

  • The Catholic Monarchs

  • Both - Portugal and the Catholic Monarchs

  • Italy

Explanation

Question 2 of 41

1

What were the consequences of the Treaty of Tordesillas?

Select one of the following:

  • The definitive border of Portugal and Spain

  • The fall of communism in the Iberian Peninsula

  • The division of the newly discovered territories

  • The Catholic Reformation

Explanation

Question 3 of 41

1

What were the scientific and geographic causes of the discoveries?

Select one of the following:

  • Diffusion of ideas of a flat Earth

  • Improvements in cartography

  • Diffusion of ideas of a round Earth

  • Expansion of Christianity

Explanation

Question 4 of 41

1

Who reached India circumnavigating Africa in 1498?

Select one of the following:

  • Prince Henry the Navigator

  • Bartolomeu Dias

  • Vasco da Gama

  • Christopher Columbus

Explanation

Question 5 of 41

1

Where did Christopher Columbus arrive in America?

Select one of the following:

  • Puerto de Palos, Huelva

  • San Salvador, Bahamas

  • Santiago, Cuba

  • Cartagena, Colombia

Explanation

Question 6 of 41

1

What is 'Reformation'?

Select one of the following:

  • Intellectual movement

  • Intellectual and religious movement

  • Anthropocentrist movement

  • Religious movement

Explanation

Question 7 of 41

1

When did the Council of Trent start and finish?

Select one of the following:

  • 1230-1453

  • 1543-1563

  • 1540-1563

  • 1536-1563

Explanation

Question 8 of 41

1

What were the indulgences?

Select one of the following:

  • Money given to the Church in exchange of redemption

  • Money given to the Church in exchange of land

  • Land given to the Church in exchange of money

  • Land of the Church given to poor people in exchange of faith

Explanation

Question 9 of 41

1

The '95 Theses' were written by who, and when?

Select one of the following:

  • Martin Luther, 1715

  • Christopher Columbus, 1492

  • Martin Luther, 1517

  • Bob Marley, 1517

Explanation

Question 10 of 41

1

Anglicanism started with who?

Select one of the following:

  • John Calvin of Switzerland

  • King Henry VIII of England

  • Prince Henry the Navigator

  • King Henry IV of England

Explanation

Question 11 of 41

1

The Renaissance is divided into

Select one of the following:

  • Greek and Roman art

  • Manual and intelectual work

  • Quattrocento and Cinquecento

  • Cinquecento and Seicento

Explanation

Question 12 of 41

1

There were political changes in the Modern Period such as:

Select one of the following:

  • The end of the Ummayad Caliphate

  • The end of the Byzantine Empire

  • The end of the Carolingian Empire

  • A greater known world

Explanation

Question 13 of 41

1

Who founded the Society of Jesus?

Select one of the following:

  • Ignatius of Loyola

  • Jesuits

  • Protestant Churches

  • Catholic Monarchs

Explanation

Question 14 of 41

1

Which of the following is NOT related with the Age of Discoveries?

Select one of the following:

  • Humanism

  • Renaissance

  • Printing Press

  • Industrial Revolution

Explanation

Question 15 of 41

1

After the crisis of the 14th century, which of the following was a change?

Select one of the following:

  • Comercial decline

  • Urban growth

  • Black Death

  • No geographical discoveries

Explanation

Question 16 of 41

1

How many inhabitants were there in Europe at the beginning and end of the 15th century?

Select one of the following:

  • From 40 to 70 million

  • From 20 to 40 million

  • From 10 to 40 million

  • From 30 to 70 million

Explanation

Question 17 of 41

1

Who invented the printing press?

Select one of the following:

  • Charles Dickens

  • Gutenberg

  • Machiavelli

  • Martin Luther

Explanation

Question 18 of 41

1

Who was the first person that thought that the sun was the centre of out galaxy?

Select one of the following:

  • Obama

  • Copernicus

  • Galileo Galilei

  • Plato

Explanation

Question 19 of 41

1

When did Humanism begin?

Select one of the following:

  • 16th century

  • 19th century

  • 13th-14th centuries

  • 15th century

Explanation

Question 20 of 41

1

What did Leonardo da Vinci use in his painting?

Select one of the following:

  • Sfumato

  • Photoshop

  • Linear perspective

  • Geometry

Explanation

Question 21 of 41

1

What were the main themes of the sculpture of the Renaissance?

Select one of the following:

  • Religion, mythology and portraits

  • Idealisation and naturalism

  • Human body as model

  • Anthropocentrism and classical antiquity

Explanation

Question 22 of 41

1

Who painted the Sixtine Chapel?

Select one of the following:

  • Raphael

  • Picasso

  • Michelangelo

  • Leonardo

Explanation

Question 23 of 41

1

Who participated of the philological andd philosophical humanist movements, translating and analising classical texts?

Select one of the following:

  • John Cena and Justin Bieber

  • Machiavelli and Petrarca

  • Martin Luther and Copernicus

  • Thomas More and Erasmus of Rotterdam

Explanation

Question 24 of 41

1

Anthropocentrism is based on?

Select one of the following:

  • God as centre

  • Sun as centre

  • Iluminati as centre

  • Men as centre

Explanation

Question 25 of 41

1

Characteristic of the architecture of the Renaissance

Select one of the following:

  • Palladio

  • Palazzo Pitti

  • New Gothic

  • Greco-Roman

Explanation

Question 26 of 41

1

What is the main work by Donatello?

Select one of the following:

  • Dome of St. Peter's Basilica

  • Palazzo Pitti

  • David

  • Gates of Paradise

Explanation

Question 27 of 41

1

Who built the façade of Santa Maria Novella?

Select one of the following:

  • Palladio

  • Donatello

  • Alberti

  • Brunelleschi

Explanation

Question 28 of 41

1

What were the materials for Renaissance sculpture?

Select one of the following:

  • Marble and bronze

  • Wood and bronze

  • Wood and marble

  • Wood, marble and bronze

Explanation

Question 29 of 41

1

Which of the following cannot be said about the growth of the power of the monarchies?

Select one of the following:

  • Reinforcing of their ower over the territories

  • Disappearance of the higher nobility

  • Imposition over the nobility

  • Limiting the autonomy of towns

Explanation

Question 30 of 41

1

The main economic change in the early Modern Period was

Select one of the following:

  • Importance of the bourgeoisie

  • Greater known world

  • Birth of commercial capitalism

  • Reformation

Explanation

Question 31 of 41

1

Which of the following reasons was NOT related of the development of trade in the Early Modern Period?

Select one of the following:

  • Geographical discoveries and explorations

  • Development of banking

  • Newly discovered agricultural tools

  • Importance of the bougeoisie

Explanation

Question 32 of 41

1

Why did the Europeans had to find new routes to Asia?

Select one of the following:

  • Because they wanted to improve cartography

  • Because they needed to migrate after the crisis

  • Because they needed to find new trading routes

  • Because they had exhausted the previous trading routes

Explanation

Question 33 of 41

1

One of the instruments of the authoritarian monarchs for reinforcing their power was

Select one of the following:

  • Dividing their territories among their children

  • Militar expansionism against other nations

  • Improvements of the bureaucracy and administration

  • Control over trade

Explanation

Question 34 of 41

1

'Diplomacy' is related mostly with

Select one of the following:

  • Internal policies

  • Foreign policies

  • Raising taxes

  • Ideology

Explanation

Question 35 of 41

1

The main social changes in this period were related with

Select one of the following:

  • The increasing power of the lower nobility

  • The decreasing power of the bougeoisie

  • The increasing power of the bourgeoisie

  • The increasing political power of the peasants

Explanation

Question 36 of 41

1

Christopher Columbus was born in...

Select one of the following:

  • Naples

  • Barcelona

  • America

  • Genoa

Explanation

Question 37 of 41

1

When did Columbus reach America?

Select one of the following:

  • 3 August, 1492

  • 12 August, 1492

  • 3 October, 1492

  • 12 October, 1492

Explanation

Question 38 of 41

1

How do we call the deal between the Catholic Monarchs and Christopher Columbus?

Select one of the following:

  • Treaty of Tordesillas

  • Treaty of Alcaçovas

  • Capitulaciones de Santa Fe

  • Peace of Ausburg

Explanation

Question 39 of 41

1

Which of the following was the main idea of Calvinism?

Select one of the following:

  • Papal authority

  • Individual interpretation of the Bible

  • Divorce

  • Predestination

Explanation

Question 40 of 41

1

Who started the Counter-Reformation?

Select one of the following:

  • Martin Luther

  • Henry VIII of England

  • The Pope

  • John Calvin

Explanation

Question 41 of 41

1

Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Reformation?

Select one of the following:

  • Luxury of the clergy

  • Selling and buying positions in the clergy

  • The defense of the authority of the Pope

  • The indulgences

Explanation

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