1. Answer the following questions.

a. Who were the Catholic Monarchs?

b. What was the Age of Exploration?

c. Who was the Holy Roman Emperor?

d. What was the Renaissance?

2. Match the ages to the events.

1571
 Battle of Lepanto.
1516
 Carlos I abdicated.
1516
 Carlos I of Habsburg became king of Spain.
1556
 Fernando II died.
1492
 Charles V was crowned.
1504
 Isabel I and Fernando II married.
1469
 Isabel I and Fernando II are proclaimed Catholic Monarchs.
1496
 Isabel I died.
1520
 Christopher Colombus travel.
3. Are the following sentences True or False?

a. The arrival of Europeans to America didn’t cause great devastation.

b. The Catholic Monarchs expanded Spain into Africa: Canary Island, Melilla and

Oran.

c. Christopher Colombus persuaded Queen Isabel I to sponsor him to travel to Africa.

d. Carlos I was crowned Holy Roman Emperor.

e. Felipe II’s navy lost the Battle of Lepanto against the Ottoman Turks.

f. After Carlos I abdicated, he divided the Empire between his brother Fernando and
his son Felipe II.

4. Draw the route of Cristopher Colombus in the map. What were the names of the
three ships that he used to go there? Colour the Spanish Empire territories.
5. Complete the chart with the objectives of the Catholic Monarchs.

Unification of
the Christian
Kingdoms

Internal policy

National
policy

Expansion