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The origins of the Modern World

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Test about the Age of Discoveries
Jaime Alonso
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Question 1

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Who rejected Christopher Columbus's project?
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  • Portugal
  • The Catholic Monarchs
  • Both - Portugal and the Catholic Monarchs
  • Italy

Question 2

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What were the consequences of the Treaty of Tordesillas?
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  • 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

Question 3

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What were the scientific and geographic causes of the discoveries?
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  • Diffusion of ideas of a flat Earth
  • Improvements in cartography
  • Diffusion of ideas of a round Earth
  • Expansion of Christianity

Question 4

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Who reached India circumnavigating Africa in 1498?
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  • Prince Henry the Navigator
  • Bartolomeu Dias
  • Vasco da Gama
  • Christopher Columbus

Question 5

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Where did Christopher Columbus arrive in America?
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  • Puerto de Palos, Huelva
  • San Salvador, Bahamas
  • Santiago, Cuba
  • Cartagena, Colombia

Question 6

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What is 'Reformation'?
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  • Intellectual movement
  • Intellectual and religious movement
  • Anthropocentrist movement
  • Religious movement

Question 7

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When did the Council of Trent start and finish?
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  • 1230-1453
  • 1543-1563
  • 1540-1563
  • 1536-1563

Question 8

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What were the indulgences?
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  • 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

Question 9

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The '95 Theses' were written by who, and when?
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  • Martin Luther, 1715
  • Christopher Columbus, 1492
  • Martin Luther, 1517
  • Bob Marley, 1517

Question 10

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Anglicanism started with who?
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  • John Calvin of Switzerland
  • King Henry VIII of England
  • Prince Henry the Navigator
  • King Henry IV of England

Question 11

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The Renaissance is divided into
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  • Greek and Roman art
  • Manual and intelectual work
  • Quattrocento and Cinquecento
  • Cinquecento and Seicento

Question 12

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There were political changes in the Modern Period such as:
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  • The end of the Ummayad Caliphate
  • The end of the Byzantine Empire
  • The end of the Carolingian Empire
  • A greater known world

Question 13

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Who founded the Society of Jesus?
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  • Ignatius of Loyola
  • Jesuits
  • Protestant Churches
  • Catholic Monarchs

Question 14

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Which of the following is NOT related with the Age of Discoveries?
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  • Humanism
  • Renaissance
  • Printing Press
  • Industrial Revolution

Question 15

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After the crisis of the 14th century, which of the following was a change?
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  • Comercial decline
  • Urban growth
  • Black Death
  • No geographical discoveries

Question 16

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How many inhabitants were there in Europe at the beginning and end of the 15th century?
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  • From 40 to 70 million
  • From 20 to 40 million
  • From 10 to 40 million
  • From 30 to 70 million

Question 17

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Who invented the printing press?
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  • Charles Dickens
  • Gutenberg
  • Machiavelli
  • Martin Luther

Question 18

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Who was the first person that thought that the sun was the centre of out galaxy?
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  • Obama
  • Copernicus
  • Galileo Galilei
  • Plato

Question 19

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When did Humanism begin?
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  • 16th century
  • 19th century
  • 13th-14th centuries
  • 15th century

Question 20

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What did Leonardo da Vinci use in his painting?
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  • Sfumato
  • Photoshop
  • Linear perspective
  • Geometry

Question 21

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What were the main themes of the sculpture of the Renaissance?
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  • Religion, mythology and portraits
  • Idealisation and naturalism
  • Human body as model
  • Anthropocentrism and classical antiquity

Question 22

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Who painted the Sixtine Chapel?
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  • Raphael
  • Picasso
  • Michelangelo
  • Leonardo

Question 23

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Who participated of the philological andd philosophical humanist movements, translating and analising classical texts?
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  • John Cena and Justin Bieber
  • Machiavelli and Petrarca
  • Martin Luther and Copernicus
  • Thomas More and Erasmus of Rotterdam

Question 24

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Anthropocentrism is based on?
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  • God as centre
  • Sun as centre
  • Iluminati as centre
  • Men as centre

Question 25

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Characteristic of the architecture of the Renaissance
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  • Palladio
  • Palazzo Pitti
  • New Gothic
  • Greco-Roman

Question 26

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What is the main work by Donatello?
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  • Dome of St. Peter's Basilica
  • Palazzo Pitti
  • David
  • Gates of Paradise

Question 27

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Who built the façade of Santa Maria Novella?
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  • Palladio
  • Donatello
  • Alberti
  • Brunelleschi

Question 28

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What were the materials for Renaissance sculpture?
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  • Marble and bronze
  • Wood and bronze
  • Wood and marble
  • Wood, marble and bronze

Question 29

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Which of the following cannot be said about the growth of the power of the monarchies?
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  • Reinforcing of their ower over the territories
  • Disappearance of the higher nobility
  • Imposition over the nobility
  • Limiting the autonomy of towns

Question 30

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The main economic change in the early Modern Period was
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  • Importance of the bourgeoisie
  • Greater known world
  • Birth of commercial capitalism
  • Reformation

Question 31

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Which of the following reasons was NOT related of the development of trade in the Early Modern Period?
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  • Geographical discoveries and explorations
  • Development of banking
  • Newly discovered agricultural tools
  • Importance of the bougeoisie

Question 32

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

Question 33

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One of the instruments of the authoritarian monarchs for reinforcing their power was
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  • Dividing their territories among their children
  • Militar expansionism against other nations
  • Improvements of the bureaucracy and administration
  • Control over trade

Question 34

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'Diplomacy' is related mostly with
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  • Internal policies
  • Foreign policies
  • Raising taxes
  • Ideology

Question 35

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The main social changes in this period were related with
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  • 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

Question 36

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Christopher Columbus was born in...
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  • Naples
  • Barcelona
  • America
  • Genoa

Question 37

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When did Columbus reach America?
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  • 3 August, 1492
  • 12 August, 1492
  • 3 October, 1492
  • 12 October, 1492

Question 38

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How do we call the deal between the Catholic Monarchs and Christopher Columbus?
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  • Treaty of Tordesillas
  • Treaty of Alcaçovas
  • Capitulaciones de Santa Fe
  • Peace of Ausburg

Question 39

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Which of the following was the main idea of Calvinism?
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  • Papal authority
  • Individual interpretation of the Bible
  • Divorce
  • Predestination

Question 40

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Who started the Counter-Reformation?
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  • Martin Luther
  • Henry VIII of England
  • The Pope
  • John Calvin

Question 41

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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the Reformation?
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  • Luxury of the clergy
  • Selling and buying positions in the clergy
  • The defense of the authority of the Pope
  • The indulgences
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