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Unit 3 - Exploration

Age of Exploration & Scientific Revolution (2023)

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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
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