3º ESO THE MODERN AGE (UNITS 5 & 6)

Reorder the following

• Modern Age

• Contemporary Age

• Prehistory

• Middle Age

• Ancien Age

Match the following

• 476

• Writing

• 3500 BC

• French Revolution

• 1492

• Fall of the Western Roman empire

• 1789

• "Discovery" of America

​ (a)   had limited geographical knowledge. They were very familiar with all of ​ (b)   and the territories around the Mediterranean and the Black seas. They also knew about ​ (c)   , China and Japan thanks to the trade with the East. However, they knew vey little about ​ (d)   and they did not know that ​ (e)   , Oceania and Antarctica even existed.

• Europeans
• Europe
• India
• Africa
• America

What was the year in which the Turks occupied Constantinople?

Match the following

• Compass

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• Log

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• Caravel

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• Portolan chart

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• Quadrant

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Match the following

• He reached India in 1498

• Pedro Álvares Cabral

• Her reached Guanahaní island in 1492

• Bartolomé Díaz

• America was named after him

• Cristobal Colón

• He reached Brazil after his ship sailed too far west during a voyage in 1500

• Vasco de Gama

• He reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1487

• Americo Vespucci

Name of the Treaty that stablished the line of division between Castilian and Portuguese territories along a meridian about 2,000 km west of the Azores islands in 1494.

Name of the philosophical and cultural movement that spread through Europe in the 15th and 16th century.

The word ​ (a)   comes from Ancient Greek: ánthrōpos "human being" and kéntron “center”, is the belief that human beings are the center of the universe. According to the humanists our ​ (b)   advance our knowledge. The humanists felt deep ​ (c)   about the world, they wanted to know about everything, they were inspired by the cultural inheritance of ​ (d)   culture. Their ideas spread across Europe during 15 and 16 centuries thanks to the ​ (e)  

• Anthropocentrism
• use of reason
• curiosity
• Greece and Rome
• printing press

Documents issued by the Pope that pardoned people their sins in return for money in the Modern age.