Theory that the sun is the center of the solar system.
What is heliocentric?
100
Spanish conquerors were known as these.
What is conquistadors?
100
In the first leg of the slave trade, slave traders from this continent went to Africa to capture slaves.
What is Europe?
100
Instrument used by exporeers to measure latitude or distance form the equator.
What is the astrolabe?
100
He developed the heliocentric theory.
What is Copernicus?
200
The king's representative innew spain was known as this.
What is the viceroy.
200
The Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan was built near this modern day city.
What is Mexico city?
200
Anywhere from 200 to 400 Africans were loaded on these to start the middle passage.
What are slaveships?
200
Instrument used to tell explorers what direction they were headed.
What is the compass (or magnetic compass)?
200
He observed through his telescope that the heliocentric theory was correct, but got in trouble with the church for doing this.
Who is Galileo?
300
Force which pulls objects to the center of the earth.
What is gravity?
300
Cortes did this after he landed at Veracruz, to prevent his men from turning back.
What burned his ships.
300
Europeans provided these to slave traders to enable them to capture Africans.
What are guns and metal weapons?
300
Though Columbus was actually Italian, he actually sailed for this country, because he was sponsored by king Ferdinand and Queen Isabella.
What is Spain?
300
Scientific Revolution encourages one to form this, an educated guess, then conduct experiments proving or disproving it.
What is a hypothesis?
400
A person who makes maps.
What is a cartographer?
400
Spanish conquistador who conquered Peru.
Who is Pizarro?
400
Africans were captured in the interior of the continent, and marched to the coast, where they were held in risons known as these.
What are castles?
400
Prince Henry, from this country, set up a school for explorers.
What is Portugal?
400
Harvey studied the circulatory system and showed that this is a pump which pumps blood throughout the body.
What is the heart?
500
Spanish born in Spain, they were the highest social class in New Spain.
What are peninsulares?
500
Spanish conquistador who conquered Mexico.
Who is Cortes?
500
The loading of slaves on to ships and transporting them across the Atlantic ocean was known as this.
What is the middle passage.
500
Magellan was the first explorer to lead an expedition around the world, though he was actually killed in these islands, and his crew completed the journey.