What is the name of the document that declared freedom for the American colonies from English rule?
Declaration of Independence
100
The key part of the scientific method promoted by Francis Bacon was what?
Hypothesis
100
What two devices made exploring the seas possible?
Compass and astrolabe
100
Who was the leader who built the huge Inca Empire and also built Machu Picchu?
Pachacuti
100
Why did Europeans begin exploring in the 1400's?
Wanted to find trade routes to Asia...Mongols no longer protected the Silk Road, Trading with Asia had become more expensive, Italians could no longer enter the Black Sea
200
What were both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights designed to do?
Limit the power of the monarch
200
Who was the scientist who published the theory that the sun was the center of the universe?
Copernicus
200
Who was the explorer who conquered the Aztecs?
Hernan Cortes
200
What did the Maya, Aztec, and Inca civilizations each develop?
Pyramid shaped architectural structure
200
The conflict between the Huguenots and the Catholics in France resulted in Henry IV signing what document?
Edict of Nantes
300
What was the era in Europe where careful observation of the natural world was made and new beliefs were accepted was called?
Scientific Revolution
300
Who created a systematic collection and articulation of natural laws, such as gravity and motion?
Newton
300
How did Pizarro conquer the Inca Empire?
He captured Atahualpa for Spain
300
What is the correct ranking of the Aztec social system from high to low?
Nobles, commoners, serf, slaves
300
What was the policy called in which a country sets up colonies for the purpose of obtaining raw materials and developing new markets that would trade only with the ruling country?
Mercantilism
400
The term natural rights, as used by Locke and the Enlightenment thinkers, refers to the ideas that what?
All people are born with certain rights that do not have to be earned.
400
Who was the scientist who studied the concept that objects fall at the same rate of speed?
Galileo
400
Which explorer established a school for navigation and exploration that led to the Age of Exploration?
Prince Henry of Portugal or Henry the "Navigator"
400
What did both Inca and Aztec civilization develop to feed their people?
Farmland or Chinapas
400
The Columbian Exchange was the movement of goods between Western Europe,West Africa and...?
The Americas
500
The Enlightenment philosophers were people whose main interest was what?
To use reason to make government and society better
500
Who said that England's government was best because it had a separation of powers?
Baron Montesquieu
500
Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the globe?
Magellan
500
Which empire was found in Peru?
Inca
500
What was the main cause of population decline of the Native Population of Central Mexico?
The introduction of disease by contact with Europeans