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Through History with the Monday Quiz in Exile: The 1480's

Post 8 of ? for Blaugust 2018.
It's Wednesday, and that means that it's time for yet another episode of our famous* Monday history quiz. This week we're focused on the 1480's. I hope you'll take a couple of minutes to take a stab at the quiz and leave your answers below. If you want to check your answers from last week, please click the button below.




Those brave enough to post their attempts last week did very well. John got the best individual score with seven points, but Adam successfully identified the emperor and Ale recognised an angel, so overall the team managed nine. 

 Let's see if we can do even better in the 1480's


1. This Portugese map must be from after 1488. Why?
2. Also in 1480, Ivan III finally ejected which group of people, who'd been ruling over the Rus for more than two centuries?
3. 1480 saw the restoration of the Sistine Chapel, famously home to papal conclaves as well as Michelangelo's Creation of Adam. But why's it called the Sistine Chapel?
4. The Citadel of Qaitbay, a fortress and mosque in an important strategic location, was completed in 1480. It was built on the ruins of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, but which one?
5. One of the most famous cases of missing persons ever known, the 'Princes in the Tower' occurred in 1483. But wait, which princes? And which tower?
6. 1487 saw the introduction in Munich of the Reinheitsgebot, a law that has remained virtually unchanged to this day. What does the Reinheitsgebot impose regulations on?
7. This is Cenobio de Valerón, an ancient granary of the Gaunches, who were conquered by the Spanish in 1483. In which island group might you find it?
8. The 1480s also saw the first publication of the Malleus Maleficarum, a bestselling book that would go on to be highly influential throughout Europe for two hundred years, despite being roundly condemned as theologically and ethically unsound when released. What's the Malleus all about?
9. The first documented cases of red spots, delerium and gangenous flesh leading to death occurred during the War of Grenada in 1489. Which disease, that Charles Nicolle was given the 1928 Nobel Prize in Medicine for discovering was transmitted by lice, was the likely culprit?
10. The A-Ma temple, dedicated to the sea goddess Mazu, was constructed in 1488. It is thought that this temple gives it's name (via Portugese) to the modern name of which peninsula?

Don't forget to leave your answers below. No guess goes unappreciated.

*Fame not included.

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