3º ESO THE MODERN AGE (UNITS 5 & 6)

Reorder the following

• Prehistory

• Contemporary Age

• Ancien Age

• Middle Age

• Modern Age

Match the following

• 476

• Writing

• 1789

• "Discovery" of America

• 3500 BC

• French Revolution

• 1492

• Fall of the Western Roman empire

​ (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?

(a)  

Match the following

• Compass

• 
• Caravel

• 
• Portolan chart

• 
• Quadrant

• 
• Log

• 

Match the following

• He reached the Cape of Good Hope in 1487

• Vasco de Gama

• America was named after him

• Cristobal Colón

• Her reached Guanahaní island in 1492

• Pedro Álvares Cabral

• He reached India in 1498

• Bartolomé Díaz

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

• 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.

(a)  

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

(a)  

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.

(a)