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When did the Second Industrial Revolution take place?
1914-1970
1750-1870
1870-1914
Which source of finance lents money to businesses in return of interest?
Joint-stock company
Banks
Stock exchange
Trusts
What's the name of a company made up of individuals who each contribute a part of the capital?
Joint-stock
Stock exchange
Bank
Holding
Which business structure consists in a vertical association formed by various companies working in different industries, which use their size to control de market for their products and eliminate their competitors?
Holding companies
Cartels
Trusts
Which were the most important sources of energy during the Second Industrial Revolution?
Sun and wind
Coal and gas
Oil and electricity
Which industry was the first one to use the assambly line?
Automobile industry
Chemical industry
Food industry
Electricity industry
Which country had the latest industrialisation?
United States
Germany
Russia
France
Where did the patent law develop?
Japan
United States
Russia
Germany
Where was the most important textile industry area in Spain?
Catalonia
Basque Country
Andalusia
Asturias
What was the main cause of imperial expansion?
International prestige
Supremacy of white people
Scientific progress
The search of new markets outside Europe
Which was the biggest empire until the Great War?
Spain
Great Britain
France
Germany
What was the name of the conference where the European powers divided Africa?
Versalles Conference
London Conference
New York Conference
Berlin Conference
Who was the owner of the Congo?
Lepold II of Belgium
Queen Victoria of England
Alfonso XII of Spain
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
Who replaced the old iberian influence in Latin America?
United States
Japan
Russia
Mexico
Which theory defended the survival of the strongest race?
Carlism
Liberalism
Social darwinism
Protestantism
Which countries took part in the Fashoda incident?
Germany and France
Spain and Portugal
France and Great Britain
Germany and Great Britain
In which type of colony the indigenous population were governed by a white minority who exploited the area economically?
Settler colonies
Protectorates
Exploitation colonies
In which colony the majority of the population were emigrants from the colonising country?
Settler colonies
Protectorates
Exploitation colonies
In which colony the indigenous population maintained its own government and administration, but under the supervision of the colonising power?
Settler colonies
Protectorates
Exploitation colonies
A social and cultural consequence of imperialism was...
Single crop and extraction economy
Racial segregation and white supremacy
Rivalry between the colonising powers
Railways in Africa
What is the style of this building?
Cast-iron architecture
Gothic architecture
Renaissance architecture
Modernist architecture
Which cultural movement showed escenes from everyday life, especially of the working class?
Impressionism
Communist art
Realism
Romanticism
Which Coubert painting started a new type of art called realism?
Which style of painting was experimental and painted scenes of everyday life and landscapes without any intention or political and social message?
Realism
Imperssionism
Academicsm
Burgeois painting
Which painting gave impressionism its name?
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