History - Early Modern Era

Question 1

When was the Early Modern Period?

Answer 1

1450-1750

Question 2

When did the Tudor Dynasty start?

Answer 2

1485

Question 3

How did the Tudor Dynasty start?

Answer 3

Henry Tudor (Henry VII) defeated Richard III at Battle of Bosworth

Question 4

When and who brought the Printing Press to England?

Answer 4

1472, William Caxton

Question 5

When did England make its first colony in North America?

Answer 5

1607

Question 6

What was the Renaissance?

Answer 6

Period in Europe from the 1300s to the 1600s with renewed interest in art, science and ideas from ancient Greece + Rome
-> significant advancements

Question 7

Name 3 inventions/discoveries of the Renaissance

Answer 7

Flying machine, armoured car, compass, microscope, telescope, parachute, paperback books, gravity, mechanical clock, sun is centre of universe

Question 8

Sailors from what countries explored to the Far East?

Answer 8

Portugal and Spain

Question 9

Which two peoples were enslaved by the Spanish?

Answer 9

The Aztecs and the Incas

Question 10

What happened to the Aztecs and the Incas under the Spanish?

Answer 10

Enslaved, land taken, worked in mines