Volume 2: The Middle Ages c

Question 1

Ferdinand and Isabella conquer Granada, ending the Reconquest

Answer 1

1491

Question 2

Ferdinand and Isabella expel the Jews from Spain

Answer 2

1492

Question 3

Columbus sails west to find Asia

Answer 3

1492

Question 4

Huayna Capac comes to the Incan throne

Answer 4

1493

Question 5

Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope

Answer 5

1497

Question 6

John Cabot sets off for Newfoundland

Answer 6

1497

Question 7

Ivan the Great of Russia dies

Answer 7

1505

Question 8

Henry VIII becomes king of England

Answer 8

1509

Question 9

Martin Luther nails the Ninety-Five Theses onto the Wittenberg church door

Answer 9

1517

Question 10

Cortes conquers the Incas

Answer 10

1519

Question 11

Suleiman the Lawgiver becomes sltan of the Ottoman Empire

Answer 11

1520

Question 12

Magellan sails through the Straits of Magellan

Answer 12

1520

Question 13

Huayna Capac dies

Answer 13

1525

Question 14

Leo Africanus writes of his journey through Songhay

Answer 14

1526

Question 15

Babur the Tiger invades India

Answer 15

1526

Question 16

Babur the Tiger

Answer 16

1530

Question 17

Ivan the Terrible becomes tsar of Russia

Answer 17

1533

Question 18

Jacques Cartier begins his exploration of North America

Answer 18

1534

Question 19

Hernando de Soto begins his exploration of North America

Answer 19

1539

Question 20

Copernicus publishes On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres

Answer 20

1543

Question 21

First meeting of the Council of Trent

Answer 21

1545

Question 22

Edward VI becomes king of England

Answer 22

1547

Question 23

Edward Vi dies

Answer 23

1553

Question 24

Mary I becomes queen of England

Answer 24

1553

Question 25

Akbar becomes emperor of India

Answer 25

1556

Question 26

Philip II becomes king of Spain

Answer 26

`1556

Question 27

Mary I of England dies

Answer 27

1558

Question 28

Elizabeth I becomes queen of England

Answer 28

1558

Question 29

Oda Nobunaga gains power in Japan

Answer 29

1560

Question 30

William Shakespeare is born

Answer 30

1564

Question 31

suleiman the Lawgiver dies

Answer 31

1566

Question 32

Ivan the Terrible dies

Answer 32

1584

Question 33

Walter Raleigh founds the first Virginia colony

Answer 33

1585

Question 34

John White leaves the Roanoke colony for England

Answer 34

1587

Question 35

Defeat of the Spanish Armada

Answer 35

1588

Question 36

Elizabeth I dies

Answer 36

1603

Question 37

First permanent English settlement in America

Answer 37

1607

Question 38

The first French settlement in Canada is established in Quebec

Answer 38

1608

Question 39

Galileo invents the telescope

Answer 39

1609

Question 40

William Shakespeare dies

Answer 40

1616

Question 41

The last Chinese emperor leaves the Forbidden City

Answer 41

1624