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