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SS8
Social Studies 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| shoen | Land given to vassals |
| shogun | military ruler of Japan |
| Top knot | Knot of hair on top of a samurais head. |
| Who invented the printing press | Gutenburg |
| Empirical reasoning. | Drawing conclusions from physical evidence. |
| Copernicus | Was the first man to state that the world was not the center of the universe. |
| Galileo Galilei | Created the telescope and was summoned before the court of the church in an inquisition. |
| Inquisition | He was tried for thinking that the earth moved and that it wasn't the middle of the universe. |
| What is a Caravel | Smaller more manouverable ships. |
| Compass | Shows you North, East, South and West.. |
| Lode stone | Primitive version of a compass. |
| Log Line | This measured the ships speed |