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1. The Council of Trent was called to reform the Catholic Church from within, with a view to reinvigorating it in order to prevent people converting to Protestantism. Between was years did it take place?
2. Which rather controversial Pope split the "New World" between the Portuguese and Spanish in 1494?
3. What is the name of the treaty that split South America in half?
4. What is the name for the not-so-politically correct term from Spanish and Portuguese colonial times in Latin America that referred to people of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry?
5. How is it believed that Queen Mary I, Bloody Mary, died?
6. During the High Middle Ages, Salerno, Italy was famous for having which type of university?
7. Staying on the subject of education in the Middle Ages, what four subjects made up the "Quadrivium'?
8. Which of the following scholars was NOT a Renaissance Humanist?
9. What Renaissance banker lent 500,000 Florentine Florins to Charles V for a less than noble cause?
10. Which English philosopher wrote the political work, "Leviathan" in 1651?
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