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Review Day Three
Scientific Revolution, Exploration, Columbian Exchange and Slave Trade
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Columbus | I tried to find the fastest trade route to India for the king and queen of Spain but instead found San Salvador |
| Natural Resources | materials or substances used for material gain |
| Mercantilism | government control of the economy to create a favorable balance of trade; also to colonize for cheap labor, marketplaces and natural resources |
| Encomienda System | Spanish encouragement of immigrants establishing farms that exploited the Native Americans |
| Capitalism | economic system controlled by private individuals, not the state |
| Motives of Exploration | Gold, Glory and God (to grow wealthyand spread Christianity) |
| Small pox | European disease that when brought to the New World decimated the Native population |
| Nicholas Copernicus | I developed the heliocentric theory but did not publish it until near my death for fear of excommunication |
| excommunication | you are no longer a member of the Catholic Church and therefore can not receive the sacraments |
| Isaac Newton | I discovered the law of universal gravitation |
| Astrolabe | navigation tool of explorers that use an instrument and the stars to navigate |
| Francis Bacon | While I might have frozen a chicken, I'm better known for developing the Scientific Method |
| Crops that fueled the slave trade | Tobacco, sugar and cotton |
| Middle Passage | The second leg of triangular trade |
| Galileo | I didn't exactly recant my heliocentric beliefs when the Church as me to do so. I also found the moons of Jupiter. |
| Diaspora | the diffusion of culture due to forced immigration |
| entrepreneur | risk taking businessman |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | Established by the pope to stop fighting between Spain and Portugal during exploration |
| Martin Luther | Pope Leo X thought I was a harmless monk. |
| Henry VIII | I broke with the Catholic Church for political reasons (I wanted a son) and economic reasons (I wanted Church land) |
| Leonardo Davinci | I painted the Mona Lisa and Last Supper |
| Recant | to take back one ideas |
| Chivalry | the duties associated with a knight |
| Papacy | having to do with the office of the pope |
| Secularism | rejection of religious and religious considerations |
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