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What was the Northern province of Lusitania known as?
Gallaecia
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What are castros?
hill forts
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What are two large Roman sites that still exist today in Portugal?
Conímbriga and Mirobriga
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How far apart are Conimbriga and Coimbra?
16 km
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How long did it take the Umayyad Caliphate to defeat the Visigoths?
a few months
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In what year did Portugal become a part of Umayyad Caliphate's empire?
711
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In which year did Umayyad Caliphate's empire collapse?
750
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Under whom did the Western part of Umayyad Caliphate's empire gain its independence?
Abd-ar-Rahman
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How long did it take the Emirate to become the Caliphate of Codoba?
almost two centuries
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What were the governors of the taifas called?
Emir
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Which which kingdoms did the taifas establish diplomatic relations?
the Christian kingdoms of the north
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To which taifa did most of Portugal fall into?
Taifa of Badajoz
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In which year did the taifa period end?
1086
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Which battle took place in 1147?
Battle of Sagrajas
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What are converts to Islam called?
Muwallad or Muladi
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Who did the Arabs principally consist of?
noblemen from Oman
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Where were the Berbers originally from?
Atlas mountains and Rif mountains of North Africa
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In which region of Portugal did the Muslim population stay?
Algarve region, and south of the Tagus
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How many modern Portugese words have Arabic origins?
800
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What was Pelayos' plan?
to use the Cantabrian mountains as a place of refuge and protection from the invading Moors
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Against which group of people was Pelayos fighting?
Moors
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In which battle did Pelayos defeat the Moors?
Battle of Covadonga
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In which year was Pelayos proclaimed king?
722 AD
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What was the war of Christian reconquest, started by Pelayos, known as in Portugese?
Reconquista Cristã
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Who annexed the County of Portugal into the Kingdom of Asturias?
King Alfonso III
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In which year was Vimara Peres knighted?
868 AD
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What was Vimara knighted as?
First Count of Portus Cale
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What three names did Portugal become known as after Vimara Peres was knighted?
Portucale, Portugale, and simultaneously Portugália
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Why was the Kingdom of Asturias divided?
dynastic divisions of inheritance among the kings offspring
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Who was the eldest son of Alfonso III and what did he become king of?
García, became king of León
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Who was the second son of Alfonso III and what did he become king of?
Ordoño, reigned in Galicia
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Who was Alfonso III's third son and what area did he receive?
Fruela, received Asturias with Oviedo as his capital
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In which year did Alfonso III likely die?
910
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In which year was the Kingdom of Castile formed?
1230
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During the internecine struggles, what did the the people of Country of Portugal struggle with?
maintain the autonomy of Galicia with its distinct language and culture (Galician-Portuguese) from the Leonese culture
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The County of Portugal separated from the Kingdom of Galicia to establish what?
the Kingdom of Portugal
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Portugese diverged from which language?
Galician
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What is the Castilian Lanugage known as?
Spanish
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By which language was the Astur-Leonese replaced?
Castilian (Spanish Language)
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Which years were plagued by the Black Death?
1348 and 1349
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In 1373, Portugal made an alliance with which country?
England
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What is the longest standing alliance in the world?
Portugal made an alliance with England
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The Portugal-English alliance served as the predecessor to what?
NATO
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In which Portugese region is there still visible English influence?
Oporto region
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What European age did Portugal spearhead?
the Age of Discovery
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Who was the Father of Prince Henry the Navigator?
King João I
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Which three Atlantic archipelagos did Portugal discover?
Azores, Madeira, and Cape Verde
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By which path did Portugal discover a route to India?
Cape of Good Hope
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What South American country did Portugal discover?
Brazil
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Who was the 1st Marquis of Pombal?
Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo
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What title did Archduchess Maria Anne Josefa hold?
Queen consort of Portugal
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Who arranged the widow de Melo's second marriage?
Queen consort of Portugal
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Who was de Melo's second marriage to?
the daughter of the Austrian Field Marshal Leopold Josef, Count von Daun
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Who was not pleased by de Melo's second marriage?
King John V of Portugal
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Did the King's confidence in de Melo increase or decrease?
increased
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What title was given to de Melo in 1755?
Prime Minister
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With whose economic success was de Melo impressed with?
British
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Who abolished slavery in Portugal?
Sebastião de Melo
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Who ended discrimination against difference Christian sects in Portugal?
Sebastião de Melo
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What were de Melo's greatest reforms?
economic and financial
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Why did e Melo demarcate the region for production of Port?
to ensure the wine's quality
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Did de Melo impose strict laws only on one class of people?
upon all classes of Portuguese society from the high nobility to the poorest working class
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Among which class did de Melo's reforms gain him the most enemies?
especially among the high nobility
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Who was the first person to try to ensure the wine's quality in Portugal?
Sebastião de Melo
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What type of natural disaster was the city center of Lisbon designed to resist?
earthquakes
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How were earthquakes simulated on the architectural models?
marching troops around the models
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What are some of Lisbon's tourist attractions?
The buildings and big squares of the Pombaline City Centre
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How did de Melo contribute to the study of seismology?
by designing an inquiry that was sent to every parish in the country
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Did Lisbon suffer any epidemics from the calamity?
Lisbon suffered no epidemics
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What happened to Joseph I in 1758?
wounded in an attempted assassination
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Who was implicated in the attempted assassination of Joseph I?
The Távora family and the Duke of Aveiro
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Who was expelled from the country after the assassination attempt on Joseph I?
The Jesuits
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What act finally broke the power of the aristocracy?
Sebastião de Melo prosecuted every person involved, even women and children
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In what year did Joseph I make his minister the Count of Oeiras?
1759
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Was the new Count of Oeiras opposed by anyone after the Tavora affair?
knew no opposition
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In which year was the Count of Oeiras made the Marquis of Pambal?
1770
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How long did the Marquis of Pombal rule Portugal?
until Joseph I's death in 1779
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What did Pombal's enlightenment promote at the expense of individual liberty?
autocracy
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What was Pombal's "enlightenment" an apparatus for?
crushing opposition, suppressing criticism, and furthering colonial economic exploitation
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Under whose occupation did Portugal begin a slow decline?
Napoleon
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How long did Portugal's decline last?
until the 20th century
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In what year did Brazil become independent from Portugal?
1822
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To where did Prince Regent Joao VI of Portugal transfer his court?
Brazil
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What was the name of the pluricontinental state formed by Portugal and Brazil in 1815?
United Kingdom of Portugal, Brazil and the Algarves
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What provoked the modernization and expansion of the Brazilian administrative, civic, economical, military, educational, and scientific apparatus?
the change in its status and the arrival of the Portuguese royal family
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Portugese and British troops fought against the invasion of which country?
French
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By what year had the situation in Europe cool down enough so that Joao VI would have been able to safely return to Lisbon?
1815
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Until when did the King of Portugal remain in Brazil?
until the Liberal Revolution of 1820
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Where did the Liberal Revolution of 1820 begin?
Porto
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When was the Conference of Berlin held?
1884
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Why were the Portugese Africa territories' borders formally established?
to protect the centuries-long Portuguese interests in the continent from rivalries enticed by the Scramble for Africa
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During what period were the Portugese Africa's cities founded or redeveloped?
Scramble for Africa
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What new Portugese Africa's coastal towns were developed during the Scramble for Africa?
Beira, Moçâmedes, Lobito, João Belo, Nacala and Porto Amélia
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When were railroad tracks being installed Portugese Africa?
before the turn of the 20th century
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On what day were King Dom Carlos I and and his heir, Prince Royal Dom Luis Filipe, Duke of Braganza, murdered?
1 February 1908
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Under the rule of King Dom Carlos I, on what two days was Portugal declared bankrupt?
on 14 June 1892, and again on 10 May 1902
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Who succeeded King Dom Carlos I as king?
Manuel II of Portugal
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On what day was King Manuel II overthrown?
5 October 1910
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During the Portuguese First Republic, what creating a fertile ground for chaos and unrest?
Political instability and economic weaknesses
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Who led the Estado Novo?
António de Oliveira Salazar
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