Science, Sky & Galileo (Chapter 1)
This object in the sky was often seen as a bad omen by Europeans.
What is a comet?
Europeans hoped to gain this and become richer through exploration.
What is wealth?
The powerful Native confederacy living in Virginia.
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?
The mysterious colony that disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
England's first permanent colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Galileo used this invention to study the heavens.
What is a telescope?
Sailors used this instrument to help navigate by the stars.
What is an astrolabe?
These three crops were known as the Three Sisters.
What are corn, beans, and squash?
The governor who returned to find the colony gone.
Who is John White?
This leader told settlers, "He who will not work shall not eat."
Who is John Smith?
This model placed Earth at the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric model?
These powerful weather events often threatened ships.
What are storms?
The Powhatan longhouse was called this.
What is a yehakin?
The word carved into a tree as a clue.
What is Croatoan?
The crop that made Virginia wealthy.
What is tobacco?
Galileo was placed under this form of punishment after his trial in 1633.
What is house arrest?
England, Spain, France, and Portugal competed to claim this.
What is land/territory?
Powhatan children learned by doing this instead of attending formal schools.
What is learning through observation and daily work?
The colony disappeared from this island.
What is Roanoke Island?
The first representative assembly in English America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This model of the universe put the Sun at the center.
What is the heliocentric model?
The ship design that helped explorers travel farther across oceans.
What is a caravel?
A major misunderstanding between the English and Powhatans involved this idea.
What is land ownership?
Historians still use this word to describe what happened to the colony.
What is a mystery?
The Native confederacy whose people helped settlers survive.
What is the Powhatan Confederacy?