Atlantic Exploration
A settlement or territory controlled by another country.
What is a colony?
The movement of plants, animals, diseases, people, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What was the Columbian Exchange?
A period when thinkers increasingly used observation, experiments, and reason to understand the world.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This German monk criticized Catholic Church practices and helped begin the Protestant Reformation.
Who is Martin Luther?
This religious leader was the head of the Catholic Church.
Who is the pope?
A person who travels to spread a religion.
What is a missionary?
The two halves of the world connected through the Columbian Exchange.
What are the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
This scientist supported the idea that Earth moves around the sun and came into conflict with the Catholic Church.
Who is Galileo?
These Church payments connected to punishment for sins became one of Martin Luther’s major criticisms.
What are indulgences?
This invention allowed books, pamphlets, and new ideas to be copied much faster.
What is the printing press?
A large farm that grows crops, often for sale.
What is a plantation?
This spread to Indigenous populations and caused large numbers of deaths after European contact.
What is disease?
The theory that the sun and the planets revolve around the Earth.
What is geocentric?
This list written by Martin Luther criticized Church practices, especially the sale of indulgences.
What are the 95 Theses?
Martin Luther believed this should be the most important source of religious truth.
What is the Bible, or Scripture?
The process of establishing control over land in another part of the world.
What is colonization?
Foods such as corn, potatoes, and tomatoes are examples of these items moved during the Columbian Exchange.
What are crops?
The theory that the Earth and the planets revolve around the sun.
What is heliocentric?
This word means a religious belief that goes against official Church teaching.
What is heresy?
This term means being officially removed from membership in the Catholic Church.
What is excommunication?