T2 Exam practice 2018-19 Ch 8-12(23 problems)

Vasco Núñez de Balboa discovered a golden empire in Panama.

• True

• False

European diseases killed more Aztec people than Spanish weapons did.

• True

• False

Catholicism was never very popular in Spain.

• True

• False

Gutenberg’s movable type printing press helped spread humanist ideas.

• True

• False

During the Renaissance, people became less secular.

• True

• False

The goal of the Reformation was to reform the Catholic Church.

• True

• False

The country of ____________________ led the way in the 1400s in exploring new trade routes to Asia.

• England

• Portugal

• France

• Spain

Which of the following statements describes the type of government which existed in Florence during the Renaissance?

• It was a small Italian town ruled by the king of Italy in Rome.

• It was completely under the control of the Catholic Church

• It was a city-state ruled by the wealthy Medici family.

• It was the capital of France and had a large bureaucracy.

The Peace of Augsburg let Germany be divided into

• a Catholic west and a humanist east.

• a Protestant north and a Catholic south.

• a humanist north and a Protestant south.

• a Lutheran south and a Catholic north.

Europe’s kings allowed the Italian city-states to remain independent so the kings could

• borrow money from them.

• hire mercenaries.

• pay tribute.

• use their ports.