Unit 5. Commercial law in the Modern Age

This historical period corresponds to the values of modernity: progress, communication and reason, confronted with those of the Ancient History: isolation and intellectual obscurity

• True

• False

Main philosophical movements of the Early Modern period

• Phenomenology

• Scholasticism

• Rationalism

• Enlightenment

Early Modern period coincides with

• The emergence of absolute monarchies

• The emergence of feudalism

• The emergence of dictatorhips

• The emergence of slavery

A religious reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s. It resulted in the creation of a branch of Christianity called Protestantism

(a)  

Commercial capitalism replaces feudalism and guild organisation

• True

• False

One of the main modern inventions that led to a historical breakthrough

• Astrolabe

• X rays

• Printing press

• Vaccine

It is a set of political and economic ideas that developed between the 16th and 18th centuries in Europe. It consisted of strong state intervention in the economy, and developed during monarchical absolutism

• Communism

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Feudalism

On the threshold of the 16th century, the first colonial empires emerged:

• Portugal and England

• Germany and the Netherlands

• England and Germany

• Portugal and Spain

On the threshold of the 16th century, absolute monarchies supported the bourgeoisie

• True

• False

The age of discoveries were led by:

• Francisco Pizarro

• Vasco de Gama

• Hernán Cortés

• Crhistopher Columbus