Spanish History Dates And Statistics

Question 1

What was the increase of the Santa Hermandad?

Answer 1

3,000 to 10,000 men

Question 2

When was the Granada war

Answer 2

1492

Question 3

When was the expulsion of the Jews?

Answer 3

1492

Question 4

When was the expulsion of the mudejars?

Answer 4

1502

Question 5

How many towns had corregidores in 1515?

Answer 5

61

Question 6

Why were the 5 chambers of the royal council?

Answer 6

• foreign policy
• justice
• finance
• Aragon
• Santa hermandad

Question 7

When did the Cortes not meet?

Answer 7

1481-1498

Question 8

How much money did Ferdinand and Isabella spend on ambassadors?

Answer 8

75 million maravedis

Question 9

Income in 1477

Answer 9

27 million maravedis

Question 10

What was the increase of spending on the military?

Answer 10

From 20 million to 80 million maravedis

Question 11

What years did the SH take over the role of the Cortes?

Answer 11

1481-1498

Question 12

When were the SH disbanded?

Answer 12

1498

Question 13

In what year were all members of the royal council letrados?

Answer 13

1493

Question 14

How much were Jews taxed during the Granada war?

Answer 14

58 million maravedis

Question 15

How much did the crown make from selling Moorish war prisoners?

Answer 15

56 million maravedis

Question 16

What were senorios?

Answer 16

Lordships which carried jurisdiction over an area. Allows Crown to exercise political power over the nobility

Question 17

In what year did the crown stop the production of low quality wool?

Answer 17

1494

Question 18

In what year did Isabella accept that Portugal had monopoly of fishing and trade along the west coast of Africa?

Answer 18

1479

Question 19

When was currency standardised?

Answer 19

1497

Question 20

What fraction of bullion were the crown entitled to?

Answer 20

1/5

Question 21

What fraction of wool had to be locally sold?

Answer 21

1/5

Question 22

In what year did Ferdinand and Isabella not support Columbus?

Answer 22

1486

Question 23

When did Ferdinand and Isabella give support for Columbus?

Answer 23

1492

Question 24

How much did Ferdinand and Isabella on support for Columbus?

Answer 24

2 million maravedis

Question 25

When was the treaty of tordesillas?

Answer 25

1494

Question 26

What did the 1494 treaty of tordesillas do?

Answer 26

Moved the line of Spanish territory further west

Question 27

What was the ‘inter caetara’ of 1495?

Answer 27

A papal bull issued by pope Alexander VI giving Spain rights to South America

Question 28

When was the spanish city of Santo Domingo founded?

Answer 28

1496

Question 29

When did f&i forbid slavery in the new world?

Answer 29

1500

Question 30

When were the ‘laws of burgos’ and what did they do?

Answer 30

1512 and they set a code of behaviour for Spaniards

Question 31

When was a central trading office set up in port in Seville?

Answer 31

1503

Question 32

When did Isabella die?

Answer 32

1504

Question 33

When did Joanna and Philip arrive in castile?

Answer 33

1506

Question 34

What treaty gave Philip and Joanna Castile?

Answer 34

Treaty of villafafila in 1506

Question 35

In what year did Ferdinand marry germaine de foix?

Answer 35

1506

Question 36

In what year did Philip of Austria die?

Answer 36

1506

Question 37

When was Ferdinand sworn in regent?

Answer 37

1510

Question 38

When did Ferdinand die?

Answer 38

1516

Question 39

When was the inquisition re-established?

Answer 39

1478

Question 40

Why was burgos granted a consulado?

Answer 40

To help regulate trade | To resolve any legal problems

Question 41

When was Columbus first voyage

Answer 41

1492

Question 42

When was Columbus second votar?

Answer 42

1493-1496

Question 43

When was Columbus 3rd voyage?

Answer 43

1498-1500

Question 44

When was Columbus fourth voyage?

Answer 44

1502-1504

Question 45

When was the papal bull given?

Answer 45

1494

Question 46

When did the moors capture the border town of Andalusia?

Answer 46

1481

Question 47

Name of the battle that ended the comuneros revolt in 1521

Answer 47

Battle of villalar

Question 48

When was the council of war created?

Answer 48

1522

Question 49

When was the council of finance created?

Answer 49

1523

Question 50

When was the council of state created?

Answer 50

1526

Question 51

In what year did Portugal and Spain make peace at Alcacovas?

Answer 51

1479

Question 52

What did Portugal five up at alcacovas in 1479?

Answer 52

Claims to canaries

Question 53

When did the canaries become part of Spain?

Answer 53

Late 1490s

Question 54

When did pope Alexander VI grant Portugal territories in Africa?

Answer 54

1494

Question 55

How many outposts did Spain have left in North Africa by 1556?

Answer 55

4

Question 56

When were the silver mines of Potosí discovered?

Answer 56

1545

Question 57

How much did gold and silver produce per annum?

Answer 57

324,000 ducats

Question 58

During Charles reign how much did gold and silver make?

Answer 58

11 million ducats

Question 59

How much did contraband bullion seizure make?

Answer 59

3.5 million

Question 60

Did colonists pay taxes?

Answer 60

Yes

Question 61

How much did Spain owe to the fuggers?

Answer 61

5 million

Question 62

When was foreign cloth allowed to be sold again?

Answer 62

The 1540s

Question 63

How much did the church money account to for crown income?

Answer 63

1/4

Question 64

How many ducats did the church give by the 1550s

Answer 64

500,000 ducats

Question 65

How much money did the cruzada provide?

Answer 65

Around 120,000

Question 66

How much was new world income?

Answer 66

871,000 ducats