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Key Facts: Canary Islands PAU History of Spain Exam
90 Min
Official duration of the PAU History of Spain written examination
COPAU / ULPGC & ULL
40%
Weight of PAU Access Phase mark in final University Access Grade (NCA)
Gobierno de Canarias
4.0
Minimum mark required on PAU Access Phase to combine with Bachillerato GPA
Spanish PAU Regulations
100
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The PAU History of Spain (COPAU / ULPGC & ULL) exam assesses 2º Bachillerato students across 4 major chronological blocks in a 90-minute written examination.
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1Which hominin fossil discovery at the Gran Dolina site in Sierra de Atapuerca (Burgos) defined a new human species dated to over 800,000 years ago?
A.Homo neanderthalensis
B.Homo erectus
C.Homo heidelbergensis
D.Homo antecessor
Explanation: Homo antecessor was identified in 1994 from fossils recovered at Gran Dolina in Sierra de Atapuerca, establishing one of the oldest confirmed hominin occupations in Western Europe dated to around 850,000 years ago.
2The parietal cave art of Altamira in Cantabria, renowned for its polychrome bison figures, belongs to which Upper Paleolithic cultural period?
A.Aurignacian culture
B.Mousterian culture
C.Magdalenian culture
D.Solutrean culture
Explanation: The spectacular polychrome bison ceiling of Altamira Cave was created during the Magdalenian period (c. 15,000–12,000 BC), representing the peak of Franco-Cantabrian Upper Paleolithic cave art.
3Which ancient civilization located in southwestern Iberia was legendary for its wealth in metals and silver trade with Eastern Mediterranean merchants during the 8th–6th centuries BC?
A.Celtiberia
B.Lusitania
C.Tartessos
D.Turdetania
Explanation: Tartessos flourished in the lower Guadalquivir region, developing an advanced urban culture that exported silver, gold, and tin to Phoenician and Greek traders.
4Which ancient Mediterranean colonization established the trading colony of Gadir (modern Cádiz) around 1100 BC, introducing iron metallurgy and alphabetic writing to Iberia?
A.Greek colony of Emporion
B.Carthaginian Empire
C.Etruscan traders
D.Phoenicians from Tyre
Explanation: Phoenicians from Tyre founded Gadir around 1100 BC as a strategic Atlantic port, introducing iron technology, the alphabet, pottery wheels, and olive cultivation to southern Iberia.
5During the Second Punic War (218–201 BC), which Roman general captured Qart Hadasht (Cartagena) in 209 BC and defeated Carthaginian forces at the Battle of Ilipa?
A.Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa
B.Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus
C.Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus
D.Gaius Julius Caesar
Explanation: Scipio Africanus executed a brilliant campaign in Iberia during the Second Punic War, seizing Cartagena in 209 BC and ending Carthaginian presence at Ilipa in 206 BC.
6Which imperial decree issued by Emperor Caracalla in 212 AD granted full Roman citizenship to all free inhabitants of Hispania and the Roman Empire?
A.Edict of Milan
B.Edict of Thessalonica
C.Pax Augusta Decree
D.Constitutio Antoniniana
Explanation: The Constitutio Antoniniana (Edict of Caracalla) of 212 AD extended Roman citizenship to all free men across Hispania, completing the legal integration of provincial populations.
7At which church council in 589 AD did the Visigothic King Recared formally convert from Arianism to Catholicism, unifying the Visigothic Kingdom religiously?
A.Council of Elvira
B.Fourth Council of Toledo
C.First Council of Nicaea
D.Third Council of Toledo
Explanation: At the Third Council of Toledo in 589 AD, King Recared publicly renounced Arian heresy and embraced Catholicism, unifying the Visigothic ruling elite and Hispano-Roman majority under one faith.
8Which comprehensive legal code promulgated by King Recceswinth around 654 AD created a single unified legal system for both Visigoths and Hispano-Romans?
A.Breviary of Alaric
B.Siete Partidas
C.Liber Iudiciorum
D.Code of Euric
Explanation: The Liber Iudiciorum (or Book of Judgments, later known as Fuero Juzgo) unified Visigothic and Hispano-Roman legal traditions into a single statutory code across the Iberian peninsula.
9In 711 AD, the Umayyad commander Tariq ibn Ziyad defeated the Visigothic King Roderic at which decisive battle, initiating the Muslim conquest of Hispania?
A.Battle of Poitiers
B.Battle of Guadalete
C.Battle of Covadonga
D.Battle of Simancas
Explanation: The Battle of Guadalete in July 711 AD saw Tariq's Muslim forces crush King Roderic's army, causing the rapid collapse of the Visigothic Kingdom.
10Who declared himself the independent Emir of Córdoba in 756 AD, establishing the Umayyad dynasty in Al-Andalus after escaping the Abbasid overthrow in Damascus?
A.Al-Hakam II
B.Tariq ibn Ziyad
C.Abd al-Rahman III
D.Abd al-Rahman I
Explanation: Abd al-Rahman I (the Immigrant) fled the Abbasid massacre in Syria, arrived in Al-Andalus, and proclaimed the independent Emirate of Córdoba in 756 AD.
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