WorksheetsHistory & Geography (final test)
Total questions: 28
Worksheet time: 9mins
The Early Modern Age came after…
The Late Modern Age
The Middle Ages
The Modern Age
The Contemporary Age
The expansion of craftsmanship at the beginning of the Early Modern Age was related to…
The Feudal system
The domestic system, workshops and guilds
Rural society
The social group that increased their number, wealth, and influence in the Modern Age was…
The bourgeoisie
The peasants
The nobility
The clergy
The main consequences of the creation of the Modern State were…
The nobility became stronger than the monarchy
The monarchy became stronger than the nobility
The nobility kept their own armies
The bourgeoisie became part of the privileged class
Anthropocentrism was a way of thinking…
In which God was the centre of everything
Typical of the Middle Ages
In which Man was the centre of everything
Characteristic of absolute monarchies
Who was the inventor of printing press in middle 15th century?
Copernicus
Wittenberg
Johannes Printer
Gutenberg
The marriage of the Catholic Monarchs was…
A dynastic union
A territorial union
The creation of Spain
Jews who stayed in the Iberian Peninsula after 1492 were known as…
Conversos
Anti-semites
Moriscos
Sephardic
What are the main ideas of Lutheranism?
The free reading of the Bible, the importance of faith, the denial of the authority of the Pope and the rejection of all the sacraments.
The free reading of the Bible, the importance of faith, the denial of the authority of the Pope and the rejection of several sacraments
The religious court that prosecuted crimes against the faith and false converts was…
The Council of Trent
The Santa Hermandad
The Inquisition
The Royal Treasury
Precious metals from the Americas were used by Hispanic Monarchs to…
Invest in technological advances for agriculture
Invest in textile industry
Finance wars against other european monarchs
Find new trade routes
The main event of the Counter-Reformation was…
The publishing of the 95 theses
The Battle of Mühlberg
The Battle of Lepanto
The Council of Trent
The document signed by the Church that let people to have some sins remitted was:
Peace of Augsburg
Indulgence
Excommunication
Church notes
These events took place in Spain during the reign of Carlos I
The revolt of the Comuneros and the Revolt of the Brotherhoods
The war against protestant princes and the Peace of Augsburg
The War of Succession
The first bullfight and flamenco dance
Under the government of which monarch the sentence “the Empire on which the sun never sets” was commonly applied:
Carlos I Spain and V Germany
Louis XIV, the sun king
Felipe IV
Felipe II
The first absolute monarch was…
Louis XIV
Carlos II
Henry VIII
Isabella the Catholic
The first Parliamentary Monarchy was…
Spain
France
England
The United States of America
Which of these elements is characteristic of absolutism?
The unlimited power of the monarch.
Having a prime minister or foreign minister.
The monarch shares their power with a parliament.
The Bourbon dynasty began ruling in Spain after…
The Nueva Planta Decrees
The War of Independence
The War of Succession
The three branches of Geography are…
Natural, Economic and Physical
Physical, Human and Regional
Rural, Ecological and Economic
Modern, Traditional and Physical
The discipline in charge of representing territories by the creation of maps is known as…
Topography
Scales
Cartography
Map projections
The most used map projection is…
Cylindrical
Flat
Gall-Peters
Conical
What is the main advantage of the Mercator projection?
It allows sailors to navigate a route accurately.
It represents the surfaces realistically, but it distorts the shape of the countries in the tropical regions by stretching them and reducing the size of the ones located in high latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere.
It’s easy to carry.
A group of people, houses and other permanent buildings that provide services for the ones that live there and individuals from more distant areas are:
Towns
Villages
Cities
Choose the best statement according to human life:
Recently, there is the tendency to return back to rural areas that let people the use of natural resources
More than 2/3 of world population live in cities
Nowadays, more than 50% of human population is urban
Which of the following is an accurate definition of an emerging country?
A country that enjoys significant economic growth, but still has issues to overcome such as inequality and the lack of civil rights and democracy.
A country that has reached high economic, social and political levels although there are substantial differences in different regions and there are many inequalities amongst the inhabitants.
A country that is no longer identified as underdeveloped due to low production costs and good business practices.
Which of the following is an accurate definition of a developed country?
A country which has significant economic growth but still has deficits with regard to human rights such as social inequalities and absence or lack of civil and democratic rights.
A country which has reached generally elevated economic, social and political levels. However, even within the developed world, there is considerable inequality both within and across regions.
Traditional cities can be subdivided into:
New cities, recently developed cities and cities from the 18th
Muslim cities, historical Asian cities and South and Central American colonial cities
Rural and suburban cities
