Believed that the Earth is the center of our Universe and every other object and planet rotates around it.
What is Ptolemy?
100
European explorers and traders began to use smaller, faster ships called
What is Caravels?
100
The idea that a country gains power by building up its supply of gold and silver by exporting more goods than you import.
What is Mercantilism?
100
While merchants set up some English colonies to make money, others were set up by people who wanted religious freedom to settle in ______.
What is America.
200
Published a large, 28-volume encyclopedia that began in the 1750s, took about 20 years to complete.
What is Denis Diderot?
200
Believed that the Sun was the center of our Universe and everything other object and planet revolves around it.
What is Copernicus?
200
Asian Goods became expensive due to the Mongol Empire collapse, and people started to look for different route to East Asia that bypassed the Middle East and used (land, sea) routes.
What is sea routes?
200
The buying and selling of goods in large amounts over long distances.
What is Commerce?
200
First town of a new colony called Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
300
Wrote a book called "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman." In this book, she claimed that all humans have reason. Because women have reason, they should have the same rights as men.
What is Mary Wollstonecraft?
300
Found and explored the smallest living material called cells.
What is Robert Hooke?
300
Sailed on the Santa María, the Niña, and the Pinta and found that Earth has 2 large continents.
What is Christopher Columbus?
300
As Europe traded with the world, a global exchange of people, goods, technology, ideas, and diseases spread across two continents.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
300
A group of Puritans that boarded the ship "Mayflower" and decided to go to America so that they could worship freely.
What is Pilgrims?
400
Published a book called "The Social Contract" that presented political ideas, and that a workable government should be based on an agreement in which everyone in a society agrees to be governed by what society as a whole wants.
What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
400
Created the Laws of Motion and discovered gravity.
What is Isaac Newton?
400
Led the first expedition to sail completely around the world (circumnavigate.)
What is Ferdinand Magellan?
400
Europeans obtained sugarcane from Asia and began growing it in the Caribbean. To plant and harvest the sugarcane, they enslaved African Americans and sent them to work. This is called the ____ _____ ______.
What is African Slave Trade.
400
A government in which people elect representatives to make laws and manage government.
What is Representative Government?
500
Wrote many novels, plays, letters, and essays, became known for his strong dislike of the Roman Catholic Church, and opposed the government supporting one religion and forbidding others.
What is François-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
500
Believed that new knowledge could come through experiments that were carefully carried out and realized that scientific instruments could help humans better explore the natural world (telescope.)
What is Galileo Galilei?
500
First European to sail around the south of Africa and reach India.
What is Vasco da Gama?
500
When entrepreneurs become too large, they built colonies and trading posts in Asia and used ___ _____ ______ for merchants to invest by buying a share of the company (stocks.)
What is Joint-Stock Companies?
500
The American colonies produced raw materials, such as tobacco, rice, indigo, wheat, lumber, fur, deerskin leather, fish, and whale products and were traded with ____ _____ for clothing, furniture, tea, and spices.