EARLY MODERN SPAIN - TEST

What did mark the beginning of the Early Modern Age in Spain?

• The reign of the Catholic Monarchs

• The marriage of Isabel and Fernando

• The death of King Enrique

What was The Inquisition?

• It was the beginning of the modern state in Spain

• It was a religious building

• It was an organisation with special powers to find people who didn't follow the official Catholic religion

The Catholic Monarchs were

• intolerant towards other religions

• tolerant towards other religions

• indifferent towards religion

The Age of Discovery was a period

• in which there were many voyages

• in which many European explorers discovered and conquered new lands and people

• of medieval history

In 1492 Cristopher Columbus

• went a voyage from Spain to find a western route to Asia. He landed on the Caribbean islands of San Salvador and Hispaniola

• landed on Asia

• sailed across the Pacific Ocean

One of the consequences of the Age of Discovery

• New products were introduced to Europe, such as potato and cocoa bean

• Spain ceased to be an empire

• Europe abolished slavery

The most important Habsburg Kings were

• Carlos I and Felipe II because during their reign Spain became and international empire

• Felipe III and Felipe IV

• Felipe IV and Carlos III. It was a period of economic crisis

Baroque art used

• perspective in their paintings

• curved lines, decoration and mixed light and shadows

• reality in painting the human body

Carlos III

• was a Hapsburg king.

• centralised the government.

• was a Bourbon king. He modernised Spain and built the Prado Museum and the Botanical Gardens.

The Enlightement was a new way of thinking.

• The Enlightenment thinkers believed that learning was very important. They thought that people's beliefs should be based on logic and not on superstition

• It was an art style

• It was not popular in Europe