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Unit 3 - Exploration
Age of Exploration & Scientific Revolution (2023)
Question | Answer |
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Natural Resources | Raw materials available in given location or region |
Navigational Arts | The study of and technology needed to steer a ship |
Indigenous Peoples | Group native to a particular region |
Migration | Movement of people from one climate or region to another |
Colonization | The establishing of a new settlement by a group of people who maintain ties to their home government |
Isaac Newton | Scientist that developed the laws of gravity & motion |
Cash Crop | A crop that is raised for profit rather than used by the producer |
Columbian Exchange | Exchange of goods & services between the Old & New World during the Age of Exploration |
First Americans | The indigenous people of the New World, Native Americans |
Heliocentric Theory | Sun-centered model of the solar system |
Slavery | System in which people are held in servitude or as property |
Scientific Theory | Logical procedure for gathering & testing ideas by forming a hypothesis and then testing it |
Galileo Galilei | Scientist that proved the heliocentric theory was correct by using a telescope |
Triangular Trade | Pattern of trade between the Americas, Africa & Europe |
Vasco da Gama | Portuguese sailor that established a trade route from Portugal around Africa & on to India |
Ferdinand Magellan | Explorer credited with the first circumnavigation of the globe |
Hernando Cortes | Spanish conqueror of the Aztecs |
Francisco Pizarro | Spanish conqueror of the Incas |
Prince Henry the Navigator | Portuguese royal that established a school to study the navigational arts |
Sir Francis Drake | First Englishman to circumnavigate the globe |
Jacques Cartier | French explorer that claimed most of north-east Canada for France |
William Harvey | Proved that the heart circulates the blood |
Johannes Kepler | Used mathematics to prove the heliocentric theory & proved hat the planets orbit the sun in an ellipse |
Nicolaus Copernicus | Proposed the heliocentric theory and was later excommunicated by the Catholic Church |