Extraordinary Explorers
This sailor traveled across the Atlantic ocean in 1492. He was searching for a route to India, but instead landed in the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These, are the Three Gs.
What is God, Gold and Glory?
This English physicist created the theory of gravity, as well as calculus.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
Travelling around a region or the world by boat.
What is Circumnavigation?
This heretic was burned at the stake for his idea of an infinite universe.
Who is Giordano Bruno?
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe. After his death, the King and Queen of Spain honored him by naming the area where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans (under South America) meet after him.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This shape describes the trade between Europe, Africa and the Americas.
What is a triangle?
This Renaissance astronomer was an early heliocentric theorist.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
An unproved theory accepted for the purpose of explaining certain facts or to provide a basis for further investigation.
What is a Hypothesis?
Double Jeopardy! This Portuguese explorer is credited with starting the age of exploration.
Prince Henry The Navigator
This Portuguese explorer attempted to sail to India, but only made it to the Cape of Good Hope in southern Africa.
Who is Bartholomeus Dias?
Double Jeopardy! This route shipped enslaved people from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This astronomer created refraction telescopes to study objects in space. He was considered a heretic for supporting the heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This model of the solar system places the sun at the center.
What is the Heliocentric model?
This branch of mathematics features calculations which are made using special symbolic notations.
What is Calculus?
This Portuguese explorer was the first European to sail to Calicut, India and back.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
This region imports raw materials from the Americas to create manufactured goods.
What is Europe?
This astronomer created the laws of planetary motion.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This is the exchange of food, plants, animals, diseases and resources between the Eastern Hemisphere and Western Hemisphere.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This French philosopher said humans should doubt everything they 'knew' about the world, until it could be logically proven true. He famously said the phrase, "I think, therefore I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?
This Spanish Explorer was the first to sail from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific, through the Panama Canal.
Who is Vasco Núñez de Balboa?
This economic system says there is a limited amount of wealth in the world, and each state/kingdom should try to gain as much as possible.
What is Mercantilism?
This scientist created the scientific method that is still used today.
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
These three inventions helped Europeans explore by sea.
What are is the compass, astrolabe and caravel?
This step-by-step process is used to confirm findings and to prove or disprove a hypothesis.
What is the Scientific Method?