What is the name of the peninsula where Spain is located?
What is The Iberian Peninsula
100
When the Celts arrived in Spain about 1,000 B. C. what two improvements did they bring to the resident culture?
What is the potter's wheel and iron
100
What year did the Moors (the Muslims of Northern Africa) invade and conquer Spain?
What is 711
100
What was the Spanish Inquisition? Who started it? Who was the infamous head of the Inquisition?
It was a program to rid Spain of Heretics. Isabel & Ferdinand started it.Torquemada was the first grand Inquisitor
100
What year did the Spanish Civil War start, how long did it last?
What is 1936-1939
200
Why was the Iberian Peninsula a crossroads for thousands of years?
What is because of it's long coast line with the Mediterranean and Atlantic
200
What group defeated the Greeks in Spain?
What is the Carthaginias. Their main city was Cartagena
200
When were the last Moors expelled from Spain and by whom?
What is 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabel, the Catholic Monarchs
200
Felipe II (1527-1598) was king of Spain, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands and all Spanish colonies in the New World. What military disaster occurred while he was king?
What is The defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
200
What were the two sides in the Civil War?
What is Fascists (the church, the military and the rich) The Republicans, the working people and the poor.
300
Who were the first to write about the inhabitants of what is now Spain?
What is The Greeks
300
The Second Punic War was fought by the Carthaginians and Romans.
Who won and when?
What is The Romans in 19 A.D.
300
When was he Golden Era of the Muslim Empire in Spain?
What is the 10th Century. The Moors, Jews and Christians lived together in peace and created a learned, artistic, scientific and enlightened society
300
What three important events occurred in 1492?
Columbus discovering the New World, Moors defeated, Jews expelled
300
Describe General Franco's regime when he was head of the Fascists.
It was extremely oppressive. No freedom of the press. Severe censorship, people could be placed in jail for little reason. Much hunger
400
What two civilizations had trade cities on the Southern and Eastern coasts of Spain?
What is Greeks and Phœnicians
400
What two names did the Romans call what is now Spain?
What is Iberia and Hispania
400
Who was the first national hero of Spain and what did he do?
What is El Cid. He lead the fight against the Moors and captured Valencia in 1094.
400
The Treaty of Utrecht was signed in 1713. This put an end to the European wars. What effect did this have on Spain?
What is Spain lost all of its European possessions, including the strategic Rock of Gibraltar
400
Who is the Prime Minister of Spain now?
José Zapatero
500
What did Spain have that the Greeks and Phœnicians trade for?
What is Minerals, silver, lead, iron, copper, gold and tin
500
The hispanorromana culture brought what advances to Spain
What is Language, roads, bridges, aquaducts, a system of government and a good economy and peace.
500
What is the most important date in Spanish history and why?
What is 1492, Columbus sailed, Moors and Jews expelled.
500
What did Spain lose during the early 1800's?
What is Almost all of their New World Colonies (not Cuba, Puerto Rico or the Phillipines.
500
Who became the ruler of Spain upon the death of Franco?