Who rejected Christopher Columbus's project?
Portugal
The Catholic Monarchs
Both - Portugal and the Catholic Monarchs
Italy
What were the consequences of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
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
What were the scientific and geographic causes of the discoveries?
Diffusion of ideas of a flat Earth
Improvements in cartography
Diffusion of ideas of a round Earth
Expansion of Christianity
Who reached India circumnavigating Africa in 1498?
Prince Henry the Navigator
Bartolomeu Dias
Vasco da Gama
Christopher Columbus
Where did Christopher Columbus arrive in America?
Puerto de Palos, Huelva
San Salvador, Bahamas
Santiago, Cuba
Cartagena, Colombia
What is 'Reformation'?
Intellectual movement
Intellectual and religious movement
Anthropocentrist movement
Religious movement
When did the Council of Trent start and finish?
1230-1453
1543-1563
1540-1563
1536-1563
What were the indulgences?
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
The '95 Theses' were written by who, and when?
Martin Luther, 1715
Christopher Columbus, 1492
Martin Luther, 1517
Bob Marley, 1517
Anglicanism started with who?
John Calvin of Switzerland
King Henry VIII of England
King Henry IV of England
The Renaissance is divided into
Greek and Roman art
Manual and intelectual work
Quattrocento and Cinquecento
Cinquecento and Seicento
There were political changes in the Modern Period such as:
The end of the Ummayad Caliphate
The end of the Byzantine Empire
The end of the Carolingian Empire
A greater known world
Who founded the Society of Jesus?
Ignatius of Loyola
Jesuits
Protestant Churches
Catholic Monarchs
Which of the following is NOT related with the Age of Discoveries?
Humanism
Renaissance
Printing Press
Industrial Revolution
After the crisis of the 14th century, which of the following was a change?
Comercial decline
Urban growth
Black Death
No geographical discoveries
How many inhabitants were there in Europe at the beginning and end of the 15th century?
From 40 to 70 million
From 20 to 40 million
From 10 to 40 million
From 30 to 70 million
Who invented the printing press?
Charles Dickens
Gutenberg
Machiavelli
Martin Luther
Who was the first person that thought that the sun was the centre of out galaxy?
Obama
Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Plato
When did Humanism begin?
16th century
19th century
13th-14th centuries
15th century
What did Leonardo da Vinci use in his painting?
Sfumato
Photoshop
Linear perspective
Geometry
What were the main themes of the sculpture of the Renaissance?
Religion, mythology and portraits
Idealisation and naturalism
Human body as model
Anthropocentrism and classical antiquity
Who painted the Sixtine Chapel?
Raphael
Picasso
Michelangelo
Leonardo
Who participated of the philological andd philosophical humanist movements, translating and analising classical texts?
John Cena and Justin Bieber
Machiavelli and Petrarca
Martin Luther and Copernicus
Thomas More and Erasmus of Rotterdam
Anthropocentrism is based on?
God as centre
Sun as centre
Iluminati as centre
Men as centre
Characteristic of the architecture of the Renaissance
Palladio
Palazzo Pitti
New Gothic
Greco-Roman
What is the main work by Donatello?
Dome of St. Peter's Basilica
David
Gates of Paradise
Who built the façade of Santa Maria Novella?
Donatello
Alberti
Brunelleschi
What were the materials for Renaissance sculpture?
Marble and bronze
Wood and bronze
Wood and marble
Wood, marble and bronze
Which of the following cannot be said about the growth of the power of the monarchies?
Reinforcing of their ower over the territories
Disappearance of the higher nobility
Imposition over the nobility
Limiting the autonomy of towns
The main economic change in the early Modern Period was
Importance of the bourgeoisie
Greater known world
Birth of commercial capitalism
Reformation
Which of the following reasons was NOT related of the development of trade in the Early Modern Period?
Geographical discoveries and explorations
Development of banking
Newly discovered agricultural tools
Importance of the bougeoisie
Why did the Europeans had to find new routes to Asia?
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
One of the instruments of the authoritarian monarchs for reinforcing their power was
Dividing their territories among their children
Militar expansionism against other nations
Improvements of the bureaucracy and administration
Control over trade
'Diplomacy' is related mostly with
Internal policies
Foreign policies
Raising taxes
Ideology
The main social changes in this period were related with
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
Christopher Columbus was born in...
Naples
Barcelona
America
Genoa
When did Columbus reach America?
3 August, 1492
12 August, 1492
3 October, 1492
12 October, 1492
How do we call the deal between the Catholic Monarchs and Christopher Columbus?
Treaty of Tordesillas
Treaty of Alcaçovas
Capitulaciones de Santa Fe
Peace of Ausburg
Which of the following was the main idea of Calvinism?
Papal authority
Individual interpretation of the Bible
Divorce
Predestination
Who started the Counter-Reformation?
Henry VIII of England
The Pope
John Calvin
Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Reformation?
Luxury of the clergy
Selling and buying positions in the clergy
The defense of the authority of the Pope
The indulgences
