Explorers
This explorer found the Americas by mistake while searching for a route to asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These two cultures kept records of past scientific discoveries in the west.
Kepler and Galileo helped to support this scientist's heliocentric model of the universe.
Who is Copernicus?
To conquer the new world, these Spanish soldiers were armed with guns, heavy armor, and horses.
What are conquistadors?
This Absolute monarch was known for his, palace, parties and the boast: "I am the State"
Who is Louis XIV?
This explorer died during the expedition, but his crew were the first to circumnavigate the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This is scientific explanation of how something works.
What is a theory?
This renaissance scientist helped to develop a better understanding of human anatomy.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
The two European powers were at war, making them late to explore the new world.
Who are France and England?
This is the belief that God created the universe but left it to run itself.
What is Deism?
This French explorer went around was is modern day Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier
This was the belief that the Earth was the center of the universe.
What is geocentrism
This scientist wrote the book Principia.
Who was Issac Newton?
This was the cause of more Native deaths than any of the explorer's guns or weapons.
What are germs /smallpox?
This enlightened thinker didn't trust the common people so he supported the monarchy.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This explorer was the first person to find a sea route from Europe to Asia.
Who is Batholomeu Dias?
Galileo was known for creating tools like clocks, and thermometers, and this scientific tool.
What is a telescope?
Sir Francis Bacon pioneered this important scientific breakthrough.
What is the scientific method?
Hernan Cortez was known for defeating this native community.
Who are the Aztecs?
This monarch freed the Serfs in his kingdom.
Who is Joseph Hapsburg?
After Balboa failed his mission, this explorer took over and defeated the Inca.
Who is Francisco Pizarro
What is gravity?
Rene Descartes is the father of this belief that reason and logic are the only ways to find knowledge.
What is Rationalism?
What resource did the French seek most in the Americas?
What is fur?
What is absolutism?