Name one of the three things that led to the European era of exploration.
Trade, Technology, and the Rise of Strong Nations
100
This provided an orderly way, based on reason, to acquire new knowledge.
Scientific method
100
He came up with the branches of government. Name all three branches or the person that came up with the idea.
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Baron Montesquieu
100
This prevented the Jamestown settlement from collapsing.
Tobacco
100
This is the idea that a country gains power by building up its supply of gold and silver
Mercantilism
200
The Dutch replaced this European nation in the spice trade. Who did they replace?
Portugal
200
"I think, therefore I am."
Who stated this?
Rene Descartes
200
He believed that absolute monarchy was necessary to keep order.
Thomas Hobbes
200
What government did the Constitution create?
Federal Republic
200
This is the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge. Descartes is viewed as the founder of this.
Rationalism
300
This started the slave trade in the Americas
Sugar
300
He theorized that the planets moved in an elliptic path around the sun.
Johannes Kepler
300
He was the greatest thinker of the Enlightenment.
Voltaire
300
Who were the first European people to build colonies in the Americas?
Spanish
300
A law that applied to everyone and could be understood by reason.
Natural Law
400
He led the first expedition to sail completely around the world.
Ferdinand Magellan
400
What was the name of the theory that stated the sun and planets move around the Earth in circular paths.
Geocentric Theory
400
France's Sun King
Louis XIV
400
These were a series of laws enacted by Parliament in 1774 in response to the protest called the Boston Tea Party.
Intolerable Acts
400
The idea that a government may use only those powers given to it by the people.
Limited government
500
This event showed that England had the power to stand up to Spain and encouraged the Dutch and the English to begin exploring North America and Asia.
Spanish Armada
500
Better maps and charts, voyages of exploration, and new technology were all the reasons why this expanded in the 1400s.
Scientific knowledge
500
English writer who was a strong supporter of women's rights. She argued that all humans have reason and women should, therefore, have the same rights as men.
Mary Wollstonecraft
500
These were representatives in Virginia that made laws and conducted their representative form of government.
House of Burgesses
500
The idea that government receives its powers from the people.