Scientific Revolution
What is the Scientific Revolution?
What is, the change in scientific thought that took place.
What was their geography?
Where is, mountain, Peru.
What was their geography?
Tenochtitlan.
What is,high mountains and surrounded by lakes
Religious beliefs
[Polythistic or not]
What is, Polytheist and they worshiped more than 165 Gods.
Vasco De Gama, was the first European to find what?
An ocean trading route to India.
What is one factor that led to the scientific revolution?
What is, the Renaissance led to curiosity, discovery, and knowledge.
When did they flourish?
Era (time period, years)
When is, flourished in ancient Peru between c. 1400 and 1533 CE,
What was their Economy?
What is, agriculture and trade?
What was their era?
When was, 420 AD and 900 AD.
Believing he had discovered a new continent, Vespucci “found” what?
Where is, South America.
The geocentric theory is where ___ rotates around the earth. (Believed by the catholic church)
Sun rotates around the earth.
What were their religious beliefs
polytheistic, or monotheism.
What is, god, Inti, polytheistic
What was their era (time period, years)
1300 to 1521.
What was their Geography?
What is, Lowlands, tropical rainforest.
Some countries set up “Joint-Stock-Companies” and that’s where they pay for what?
What is, Expeditions.
What is the Scientific method?
What is, Observation, measurement, and experiment, and the formulation, testing, and modification of hypotheses.
What was their economy?
What is, labor taxation
What were their religious beliefs?
What is, Polytheists, There were many deities, and they were revered in monthly festivities with rich offerings.
What was their economy?
Food and agriculture.
Many sailors only sailed for the three G’s. What were they?
What is, Gold, God, and Glory.
What is rationalism?
What is, a belief that actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief
List an achievement the Inca made.
What are, canals, fountains, aqueducts, and drainage systems, and terraces.
List an Achievement made by the Aztecs.
What is, most powerful empires in Mesoamerica, highly skilled engineers, chinampas, double aqueduct.
How did the empire end?
There is no true answer, but there are theories. Overpopulation to ongoing military conflict between competing city-states
The compass uses ___ to direct the sailors? (What does it show?)
Electromagnetic waves, or direction.