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Scientific Revolutio
Scientific Revolution/Age of Exploration
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| rationalism | use of reason to understand the world |
| geocentric theory | belief that the earth is the center of the universe |
| harmony | things combining well with each other to form the universe as a whole |
| anatomy | finding structure of living things |
| dissection | cutting open plants and animals to examine their parts |
| Scientific Revolution | period of questioning accepted views of the world |
| heliocentric | sun centered |
| universal gravitation | action of gravity on all objects throughout the universe |
| scientific method | approach to understanding the world that involves observation and experimentation |
| Kepler | proved, using math, that the planets moved around the sun |
| Copernicus | the first to believe that the sun was the center of the universe |
| Galileo | used the telescope and open glass thermometer |
| Newton | said all physical objects were affected by gravity |
| Harvey | the first to study the circulation of the blood and to say that our hearts pump blood |
| Leeuwenhoek | built a microscope and was the first to observe bacteria |
| Fahrenheit | made the first mercury thermometer |
| Torricelli | invented the barometer |
| Bacon | came up with the theory of Scientific Method |
| Dias | Portuguese man to reach the Cape of Good Hope at the bottom of Africa |
| da Gama | First man (Portuguese) who went around the southern part of Africa and found a route to India |
| Where does Ms. Soster's daughter go to college? | Ohio State University |
| Magellan | First man (Spanish) whose crew circumnavigated the world |
| Pizarro | Spanish man who took over the Incas in Peru |
| Coronado | Spanish man who explored the southwest part of the U.S. looking for the Seven Cities of gold which he never found |
| Cortes | Spanish man who conquered the Aztec Indians in Mexico |
| Cabot | Italian navigator who explored for England, looking for NW Passage; He went up to Newfoundland. |
| Verrazzano | Italian man sent by the French to find the NW Passage; He explored the North American coast from the Carolinas to Canada. |
| Balboa | Spanish man who was the first European to see the Pacific Ocean |
| Ponce de Leon | Spanish man who explored Florida looking for the "fountain of youth" |
| de Soto | Spanish man who explored the Southern United States and Mississippi River |
| Champlain | French explorer who founded and named Quebec, Canada |
| Hudson | English man who worked for Dutch East India Company; A strait, a bay, and a river are named after him in the New York area. |
| La Salle | French man who explored Lake Ontario and Lake Erie and explored the length of the Mississippi River |
| Marquette | French priest and explorer who explored the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and Mississippi River with Jolliet. |
| Jolliet | French explorer who explored the St. Lawrence River, the Great Lakes, and Mississippi River with Father Marquette |
| Drake | English explorer and pirate who stole gold from the Spanish and gave it to Queen Elisabeth I of England |
| Cabral | Portuguese explorer who claimed Brazil for Portugal |
| What was the Columbian Exchange? | movement of living things between hemispheres |
| What was the Triangle Trade? | trade between West Indies (silver, sugar cane), Europe (cheap manuf. goods), and Africa (slaves) |
| Name five good things that were exchanged between Europe and the Americas. | wheat, onions, grapes, sugar cane, oranges, domestic animals, corn, potatoes, pineapples, silver |
| Name two bad things that were exchanged between Europe and the Americas. | diseases, slaves |
| Name five European countries who began colonies in the Americas. | England, France, Spain, Portugal, Holland (Dutch) |
| Who were the two countries involved in the War of the Spanish Armada? | England and Spain |
| What was the cause of the War of the Spanish Armada? | English pirate, Drake, was robbing Spanish; England was Anglican/Spain was Catholic |
| Who was the leader of Spain during this time? Why didn't like England? | Philip II; They took his gold, they were protestant, and their queen wouldn't marry him. |
| Who was the leader of England during this time? | Elisabeth I |
| Who won the War of the Spanish Armada? Why? | England; They had lighter, swifter ships and a storm destroyed Spanish Armada. |
| Explain Mercantilism. | exclusive trade between another country and colonies; colony provided raw materials; mother country provided ________ |
| Explain Capitalism. | private ownership/competition; private owners determine products made, how much made, and cost; cost is determined by supply and demand |
| Explain Socialism. | Main means of production are controlled or owned by the government; smaller businesses are owned by private citizens. |
| Communism. | Government owns and controls all economic production and distribution of a country. |
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