A) To bypass the Ottoman Empire B) To find new spices for cooking C) To escape the Black Death D) To spread Protestantism
A) Amerigo Vespucci B) Giovanni da Verrazzano C) Christopher Columbus D) John Cabot
A) Marco da Nizza B) Christopher Columbus C) John Cabot D) Amerigo Vespucci
A) Giovanni da Verrazzano B) John Cabot C) Eusebio Kino D) Amerigo Vespucci
A) America B) Asia C) Australia D) Antarctica
A) Henri de Tonti B) Marco da Nizza C) Giovanni da Verrazzano D) Christopher Columbus
A) Arizona and New Mexico B) New York and New Jersey C) Florida and Georgia D) California and Oregon
A) New England and the East Coast B) New Orleans and the Great Lakes region C) Florida and the Gulf Coast D) California and the West Coast
A) Giovanni da Verrazzano, Charles V, and the Pope B) Marco da Nizza, Henri de Tonti, and Niccolò Da Conti C) Alessandro Geraldini, François-Joseph Bressani, and Eusebio Kino D) Christopher Columbus, John Cabot, and Amerigo Vespucci
A) Eusebio Kino B) François-Joseph Bressani C) Niccolò Da Conti D) John Cabot
A) South America B) North America C) Sub-Saharan Africa D) Southeast Asia
A) Into feudal baronies ruled by France B) Into warring city-states C) Into independent monastic orders D) Into a single unified kingdom
A) Milan B) Rome C) Florence D) Venice
A) The Ottoman Empire B) The Spanish Monarchy C) The Holy Roman Empire D) The Kingdom of France
A) Religious crusaders B) National conscripts C) Feudal knights D) Mercenaries
A) Milan B) Pisa C) Venice D) Verona
A) Venice B) Florence C) Genoa D) Siena
A) Verona and Padua B) Rome and Naples C) Pavia and Parma D) Pisa and Siena
A) Condottieri B) Hoplites C) Crusaders D) Janissaries
A) North Africa and Spain B) Scandinavia and Britain C) Around Europe, especially Germany and Switzerland D) Asia Minor and the Ottoman Empire
A) Genoa, Mantua and Verona B) Florence, Milan and Venice C) Rome, Pisa and Siena D) Naples, Sicily and Ferrara
A) The League of Cambrai B) The Peace of Lodi C) The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis D) The Treaty of Pavia
A) Pisa, Genoa, and Venice B) Florence, Milan, and Naples C) Verona, Mantua, and Ferrara D) Rome, France, and Spain
A) Genoa B) Venice C) Milan D) Florence
A) Germany B) Spain C) France D) The Ottoman Empire
A) Florence and Venice B) Rome and the Papal States C) Pisa and Siena D) The Duchy of Milan and the Kingdom of Naples
A) Charles V B) Frederick II C) Otto I D) Maximilian I
A) The Peace of Lodi B) The Treaty of Verdun C) The Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis D) The Concordat of Bologna
A) The Venetian Republic B) Northern Italy C) The Papal States D) The south of Italy
A) The French B) The Turks C) German mercenaries D) The Spanish
A) The Holy Roman Empire B) The Papacy C) The League of Cambrai D) The League of Cognac
A) The Sack of Rome by mutinous German mercenaries B) The Siege of Florence C) The Turkish invasion of Venice D) The Battle of Pavia
A) The destruction of its suburbs and ruin of its export business B) The annexation of Milan and Pavia C) The rise of Florence as pre-eminent on the seas D) The signing of the Peace of Lodi
A) It halved B) It remained completely unchanged C) It tripled D) It doubled
A) The wool and silk industries B) The shipbuilding and steel industries C) The glassmaking and pottery industries D) The wine and olive oil industries
A) It only slightly delayed the invaders B) It drove them entirely out of Italy in days C) It completely stopped all foreign invasions D) It forced them to surrender immediately
A) 850,000 years ago B) 3400 BC C) 18th century BC D) 50,000 years ago
A) Rome B) Verona C) Monte Poggiolo D) Sardinia
A) Homo neanderthalensis B) Ötzi the Iceman C) Homo sapiens sapiens D) The Remedello culture
A) Bronze Age B) Copper Age C) Upper Palaeolithic D) Late Pleistocene
A) Copper Age B) Late Pleistocene C) Upper Palaeolithic D) Late Bronze Age
A) 18th century BC B) c. 50,000 years ago C) 3400–3100 BC D) 850,000 years ago
A) Bronze Age B) Copper Age C) Palaeolithic D) Iron Age
A) Two waves B) Five waves C) Three waves D) Four waves
A) Mid-2nd millennium BC B) Mid-3rd millennium BC C) Late 2nd millennium BC D) Late 3rd to early 2nd millennium BC
A) Coppersmithing B) Iron-working C) Alphabet writing D) Bronze smithing
A) Beaker culture B) Proto-Villanovan culture C) Remedello culture D) Terramare culture
A) Copper Age B) Bronze Age C) Iron Age D) Palaeolithic
A) Proto-Villanovan culture B) Beaker culture C) Terramare culture D) Remedello culture
A) Iron-working B) Dolmen construction C) Coppersmithing D) Bronze smithing
A) Late 1st millennium BC B) Late 3rd millennium BC C) Mid-2nd millennium BC D) Mid-3rd millennium BC
A) Hammering raw copper cold B) Weaving metallic threads C) Smelting iron in blast furnaces D) Casting bronze in moulds
A) Bronze casting in moulds B) Megalithic architecture C) Coppersmithing D) Iron-working
A) Central European Urnfield culture system or Terramare culture B) Euboean alphabet system C) Beaker culture or Remedello culture D) Nuragic civilization or Torrean civilization
A) A Roman historian B) Marija Gimbutas C) Ötzi D) A Greek classical writer
A) Remedello culture B) Apenninian civilization C) Urnfield culture D) Torrean civilization
A) Euboean alphabet tablets B) Terramare bronze moulds C) Urnfield burial urns D) Pre-existing megalithic culture
A) Exactly 850,000 B) More than 50,000 C) More than 7,000 D) Only a few
A) Numerous copper tablets detailing trade B) A few possible short epigraphic documents C) Complete legal codes written on stone D) Extensive historical books
A) Completely accurate and scientific B) A detailed legal record C) A precise linguistic dictionary D) More mythological than historical
A) 2nd century AD B) 18th century BC C) 8th century BC D) 3rd millennium BC
A) Euboea B) Monte Poggiolo C) Verona D) Corsica
A) Paleolithic B) Bronze Age C) Iron Age D) Neolithic
A) Celts B) Samnites C) Etruscans D) Latins
A) Cisalpine Gaul B) Magna Graecia C) Latium D) Etruria
A) The Enlightenment B) The Industrial Revolution C) The Reformation D) The Italian Renaissance
A) The Papal States B) The Aragonese crown C) The Holy Roman Empire D) The House of Savoy
A) The Italian diaspora B) The industrial boom C) The Italian Renaissance D) The fascist movement
A) Giuseppe Garibaldi B) Victor Emmanuel C) Benito Mussolini D) Cavour
A) A mutilated victory B) Economic stability C) Democratic peace D) Total triumph
A) World War II B) The Treaty of Rome C) A military coup D) The Italian institutional referendum
A) A Near Eastern origin B) A Northern European origin C) An entirely indigenous origin with no outside input D) An African origin
A) They migrated entirely from Central Europe B) They were probably an indigenous population C) They originated in the Near East D) They came from the Aegean island of Lemnos
A) A non-Indo-European language B) A Celtic language C) A purely Indo-European language D) A Germanic language
A) A matriarchal society with multiple partners B) A polygamous society without pairing C) A monogamous society that emphasized pairing D) A society that strictly avoided marriage
A) Across the Alps B) Across the Po valley C) Across the Apennines D) Across the Adriatic sea
A) The Samnites B) The Carthaginians C) The Romans D) The Gauls
A) The Phocean colonists B) Syracuse's tyrant Hiero C) The Roman king Tarquin D) The Carthaginian navy
A) A Roman invasion B) A Greek invasion C) A Gallic invasion D) A Near Eastern invasion
A) Allyships with Carthage B) Trading copper and iron C) Annexing Etruscan cities D) Colonizing the Aegean islands
A) The Ligures B) The Celts C) The Phoenicians D) The Samnites
A) Social War B) Ver sacrum C) Romanization D) Samnite Wars
A) The Sicani B) The Samnites C) The Sicels D) The Elymians
A) The Sicels B) The Elymians C) The Sicani D) The Umbri
A) The Sicels B) The Latins C) The Sicani D) The Elymians
A) The Social War B) The Samnite Wars C) The Punic Wars D) The Trojan War
A) The Social War B) The Samnite Wars C) The Punic Wars D) The Ver sacrum
A) Romanization B) Phoenicianization C) Hellenization D) Celticization
A) Lucius Junius Brutus B) Camillus C) Romulus D) Zotto
A) The Etruscans B) The Carthaginians C) The Gauls D) The Greeks
A) Lucius Junius Brutus B) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus C) Pyrrhus of Epirus D) Julius Caesar
A) The tribunes B) The two consuls C) The triumvirs D) The senators
A) Numitor B) Camillus C) Zotto D) Romulus
A) Carthage B) Seleucid Empire C) Macedon D) Epirus
A) Vercellae B) Aquae Sextiae C) Numantia D) Hispania
A) The Tiber B) The Rubicon C) The Allia D) The Nile
A) Marcus Aemilius Lepidus B) Crassus C) Mark Antony D) Pompey
A) Magna Graecia B) Imperium C) Natale di Roma D) Donations of Alexandria
A) Imperium domi B) Imperium militiae C) Proconsular imperium D) Principes imperator
A) 50 B) 100 C) 28 D) 12 |