The Age of Discovery

Question 0

The Treaty of Tordesillas

Answer 0

1494

Brokered by the Pope, it splits the undsicovered world between Spain and Portugal.

Question 1

Columbus discovers America

Answer 1

1492

he sees the West Indies

Question 2

The discovery of Newfoundland

Answer 2

1497

by John Cabot

Question 3

Discovery of the sea route to India

Answer 3

1498

by Vasco da Gama

Question 4

The Portuguese capture Melaka

Answer 4

1511

the hub of the spice trade in western Malasia

Question 5

The completion of the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Answer 5

1512

by Michelangelo

Question 6

Machiavelli writes the Prince

Answer 6

1513

Question 7

Martin Luther prepares his 95 Theses

Answer 7

1517

The apocryphal story is that he nails them to the door of the Wittenberg Church door

Question 8

Cortez conquers the Aztecs

Answer 8

1520

Question 9

Magellan sails around the world

Answer 9

1522

Question 10

The German Peasant War

Answer 10

1524-25

Approximately 100,000 are killed.

Question 11

The sack of Rome

Answer 11

1527

by the armies of the HRE under the command of Francis I

Question 12

The Diet of Augsburg

Answer 12

1530

The confessions of Augsburg set out the central tenets of Lutheranism

Question 13

the conquest of the Incas

Answer 13

1532

By Pissarro

Question 14

The Supremacy Act

Answer 14

1535

of Henry VIII

Question 15

Publication of On the Revolutions of Celestial Spheres

Answer 15

1543

Polish astronomer Copernicus puts the sun at the center of the universe.

Question 16

The first Tsar of Russia

Answer 16

1547

Ivan the Terrible

Question 17

The Peace of Augsburg

Answer 17

1555
The struggle between Catholics and Protestants in the HRE ends with the compromise that the prince decides the religion of his territory.

Question 18

Elizabeth I in enthroned

Answer 18

1558

Question 19

Sir Francis Drake circumnavigates the world

Answer 19

1580

Question 20

Roanoke is founded

Answer 20

1585
The first colony
In North Carolina
ends if failure

Question 21

The defeat of the Spanish Armada

Answer 21

1588

Question 22

The Edict of Nantes

Answer 22

1598

Henry IV decrees religious toleration

Question 23

The formation of the British India Company

Answer 23

1600

Question 24

The Jamestown settlement

Answer 24

1607

Question 25

Plymouth Colony

Answer 25

1620

Established by the Pilgrims from the Mayflower.

Question 26

The 30-Years War

Answer 26

1618-48

Question 27

Galileo advocates for the Copernican system

Answer 27

1632-33

He is convicted by the Papal inquisition of suspicion of heresy.

Question 28

The Peace of Westphalia

Answer 28

1648
ends the 30-Years War in the HRE and the 80-year Spanish-Dutch war and leads to the primacy of the nation state as a form of political organization.