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A) To escape the Black Death B) To bypass the Ottoman Empire C) To find new spices for cooking D) To spread Protestantism
A) Amerigo Vespucci B) Giovanni da Verrazzano C) John Cabot D) Christopher Columbus
A) Marco da Nizza B) Amerigo Vespucci C) Christopher Columbus D) John Cabot
A) Giovanni da Verrazzano B) Amerigo Vespucci C) Eusebio Kino D) John Cabot
A) Australia B) America C) Antarctica D) Asia
A) Henri de Tonti B) Giovanni da Verrazzano C) Marco da Nizza D) Christopher Columbus
A) Arizona and New Mexico B) New York and New Jersey C) California and Oregon D) Florida and Georgia
A) Florida and the Gulf Coast B) California and the West Coast C) New Orleans and the Great Lakes region D) New England and the East Coast
A) Giovanni da Verrazzano, Charles V, and the Pope B) Marco da Nizza, Henri de Tonti, and Niccolò Da Conti C) Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and Amerigo Vespucci D) Alessandro Geraldini, François-Joseph Bressani, and Eusebio Kino
A) François-Joseph Bressani B) Eusebio Kino C) John Cabot D) Niccolò Da Conti
A) Sub-Saharan Africa B) North America C) Southeast Asia D) South America
A) Into independent monastic orders B) Into a single unified kingdom C) Into warring city-states D) Into feudal baronies ruled by France
A) Florence B) Venice C) Milan D) Rome
A) The Kingdom of France B) The Spanish Monarchy C) The Holy Roman Empire D) The Ottoman Empire
A) Religious crusaders B) Mercenaries C) National conscripts D) Feudal knights
A) Verona B) Venice C) Pisa D) Milan
A) Siena B) Venice C) Genoa D) Florence
A) Rome and Naples B) Pavia and Parma C) Verona and Padua D) Pisa and Siena
A) Crusaders B) Condottieri C) Hoplites D) Janissaries
A) North Africa and Spain B) Scandinavia and Britain C) Around Europe, especially Germany and Switzerland D) Asia Minor and the Ottoman Empire
A) Naples, Sicily and Ferrara B) Rome, Pisa and Siena C) Genoa, Mantua and Verona D) Florence, Milan and Venice
A) The Treaty of Pavia B) The League of Cambrai C) The Peace of Lodi D) The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis
A) Rome, France, and Spain B) Florence, Milan, and Naples C) Verona, Mantua, and Ferrara D) Pisa, Genoa, and Venice
A) Florence B) Milan C) Venice D) Genoa
A) Germany B) France C) Spain D) The Ottoman Empire
A) Pisa and Siena B) Florence and Venice C) Rome and the Papal States D) The Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples
A) Frederick II B) Maximilian I C) Otto I D) Charles V
A) The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis B) The Concordat of Bologna C) The Peace of Lodi D) The Treaty of Verdun
A) The south of Italy B) The Papal States C) The Venetian Republic D) Northern Italy
A) The French B) The Spanish C) German mercenaries D) The Turks
A) The League of Cognac B) The League of Cambrai C) The Holy Roman Empire D) The Papacy
A) The Turkish invasion of Venice B) The Siege of Florence C) The Sack of Rome by mutinous German mercenaries D) The Battle of Pavia
A) The signing of the Peace of Lodi B) The annexation of Milan and Pavia C) The destruction of its suburbs and ruin of its export business D) The rise of Florence as pre-eminent on the seas
A) It halved B) It doubled C) It tripled D) It remained completely unchanged
A) The glassmaking and pottery industries B) The wine and olive oil industries C) The shipbuilding and steel industries D) The wool and silk industries
A) It drove them entirely out of Italy in days B) It completely stopped all foreign invasions C) It forced them to surrender immediately D) It only slightly delayed the invaders
A) 18th century BC B) 3400 BC C) 50,000 years ago D) 850,000 years ago
A) Sardinia B) Rome C) Verona D) Monte Poggiolo
A) Ötzi the Iceman B) Homo sapiens sapiens C) The Remedello culture D) Homo neanderthalensis
A) Copper Age B) Upper Palaeolithic C) Bronze Age D) Late Pleistocene
A) Late Bronze Age B) Late Pleistocene C) Upper Palaeolithic D) Copper Age
A) 3400–3100 BC B) 850,000 years ago C) 18th century BC D) c. 50,000 years ago
A) Palaeolithic B) Copper Age C) Iron Age D) Bronze Age
A) Three waves B) Two waves C) Five waves D) Four waves
A) Late 2nd millennium BC B) Late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BC C) Mid-3rd millennium BC D) Mid-2nd millennium BC
A) Iron-working B) Bronze smithing C) Coppersmithing D) Alphabet writing
A) Remedello culture B) Beaker culture C) Proto-Villanovan culture D) Terramare culture
A) Iron Age B) Bronze Age C) Copper Age D) Palaeolithic
A) Terramare culture B) Proto-Villanovan culture C) Remedello culture D) Beaker culture
A) Bronze smithing B) Iron-working C) Coppersmithing D) Dolmen construction
A) Late 1st millennium BC B) Mid-3rd millennium BC C) Late 3rd millennium BC D) Mid-2nd millennium BC
A) Weaving metallic threads B) Hammering raw copper cold C) Smelting iron in blast furnaces D) Casting bronze in moulds
A) Megalithic architecture B) Bronze casting in moulds C) Coppersmithing D) Iron-working
A) Nuragic civilization or Torrean civilization B) Central European Urnfield culture system or Terramare culture C) Beaker culture or Remedello culture D) Euboean alphabet system
A) Ötzi B) A Greek classical writer C) A Roman historian D) Marija Gimbutas
A) Torrean civilization B) Apenninian civilization C) Remedello culture D) Urnfield culture
A) Pre-existing megalithic culture B) Urnfield burial urns C) Terramare bronze moulds D) Euboean alphabet tablets
A) Exactly 850,000 B) Only a few C) More than 7,000 D) More than 50,000
A) Extensive historical books B) Numerous copper tablets detailing trade C) A few possible short epigraphic documents D) Complete legal codes written on stone
A) A precise linguistic dictionary B) More mythological than historical C) A detailed legal record D) Completely accurate and scientific
A) 2nd century AD B) 18th century BC C) 3rd millennium BC D) 8th century BC
A) Verona B) Euboea C) Monte Poggiolo D) Corsica
A) Bronze Age B) Iron Age C) Paleolithic D) Neolithic
A) Latins B) Samnites C) Etruscans D) Celts
A) Cisalpine Gaul B) Latium C) Magna Graecia D) Etruria
A) The Italian Renaissance B) The Enlightenment C) The Industrial Revolution D) The Reformation
A) The Holy Roman Empire B) The Papal States C) The Aragonese crown D) The House of Savoy
A) The Italian Renaissance B) The industrial boom C) The fascist movement D) The Italian diaspora
A) Giuseppe Garibaldi B) Cavour C) Benito Mussolini D) Victor Emmanuel
A) A mutilated victory B) Economic stability C) Democratic peace D) Total triumph
A) The Italian institutional referendum B) A military coup C) World War II D) The Treaty of Rome
A) A Northern European origin B) An African origin C) A Near Eastern origin D) An entirely indigenous origin with no outside input
A) They originated in the Near East B) They came from the Aegean island of Lemnos C) They migrated entirely from Central Europe D) They were probably an indigenous population
A) A Germanic language B) A Celtic language C) A purely Indo-European language D) A non-Indo-European language
A) A matriarchal society with multiple partners B) A polygamous society without pairing C) A society that strictly avoided marriage D) A monogamous society that emphasized pairing
A) Across the Apennines B) Across the Adriatic sea C) Across the Alps D) Across the Po valley
A) The Romans B) The Samnites C) The Carthaginians D) The Gauls
A) The Carthaginian navy B) The Roman king Tarquin C) The Phocean colonists D) Syracuse's tyrant Hiero
A) A Gallic invasion B) A Near Eastern invasion C) A Greek invasion D) A Roman invasion
A) Allyships with Carthage B) Annexing Etruscan cities C) Colonizing the Aegean islands D) Trading copper and iron
A) The Samnites B) The Ligures C) The Celts D) The Phoenicians
A) Social War B) Samnite Wars C) Romanization D) Ver sacrum
A) The Sicels B) The Samnites C) The Sicani D) The Elymians
A) The Umbri B) The Elymians C) The Sicani D) The Sicels
A) The Latins B) The Sicels C) The Elymians D) The Sicani
A) The Samnite Wars B) The Trojan War C) The Punic Wars D) The Social War
A) The Social War B) The Punic Wars C) The Samnite Wars D) The Ver sacrum
A) Phoenicianization B) Hellenization C) Romanization D) Celticization
A) Zotto B) Lucius Junius Brutus C) Camillus D) Romulus
A) The Carthaginians B) The Greeks C) The Gauls D) The Etruscans
A) Lucius Junius Brutus B) Julius Caesar C) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus D) Pyrrhus of Epirus
A) The senators B) The two consuls C) The triumvirs D) The tribunes
A) Zotto B) Romulus C) Numitor D) Camillus
A) Carthage B) Seleucid Empire C) Macedon D) Epirus
A) Vercellae B) Aquae Sextiae C) Numantia D) Hispania
A) The Tiber B) The Rubicon C) The Nile D) The Allia
A) Mark Antony B) Pompey C) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus D) Crassus
A) Magna Graecia B) Donations of Alexandria C) Natale di Roma D) Imperium
A) Principes imperator B) Imperium domi C) Imperium militiae D) Proconsular imperium
A) 100 B) 50 C) 28 D) 12 |