Christopher Columbus was searching for a new route to this landmass
What is India/Asia
100
The part of the journey between Africa and the Americas in which many slaves died under horrid, cramped, and unventilated storage spaces
What is the Middle Passage
100
Credited with inventing the telescope, this Italian scientist hypothesized that the sun was the center of the solar system, not the Earth
Who is Galileo Galilee
100
Enlightenment ideas from philosophers such as Voltaire, John Locke, and Montesquieu were greatly influenced by this important American document
What is the US Constitution
100
The three primary motives (reasons) for European expansion and exploration
What are the Three G's: God, Gold, Glory
200
The year in which Christopher Columbus "sailed the ocean blue"
What is 1492
200
This is the name given to the trade which occurred between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the triangular trade
200
First introduced during the Scientific Revolution, this is the process by which scientists observe, hypothesize, experiment, test, and revise their ideas.
What is the scientific method
200
Diderot, an Enlightenment thinker, is best known for creating this new type of reference book.
What is the encyclopedia
200
These forced laborers proved to be more effective on New World plantations than the natives due to the fact that they were already immune to most European diseases
Who are slaves from Africa.
300
The first person to circumnavigate the globe
Who is Ferdinand Magellan
300
Besides being susceptible to European diseases, what is the main reason the Europeans were able to conquer the Incas and Aztecs?
What is better equipment and weapons
300
The model of the solar system that places the sun at the center as opposed to the Earth
What is the heliocentric model
300
The author of Wealth of Nations, this man is considered one of the fathers of modern Economics
What is Adam Smith
300
Literally meaning "hands off", this economic principle states that government should not intervene in or regulate the economy.
What is laissez-faire.
400
These Spanish explorers came to the New World and conquered much of the native population
What are the conquistadors
400
This economic theory employed by European nations encouraged the establishment of colonies to acquire sources of raw materials
What is Mercantilism
400
The author of the Principia, which is often considered to be the world's first physics and calculus textbook. Credited with "discovering" gravity and calculus.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton
400
Rousseau wrote this famous book regarding the relationship between the people and the government
What is The Social Contract
400
Enlightenment philosophers and scientists of the Scientific Revolution increasingly began to question the ideas of this well-established institution.
What is the Catholic Church
500
This Caribbean island is where Columbus first arrived when he encountered the New World.
Hint: normalized relations
What is Cuba
500
A type of settlement in a new territory linked with the parent country by trade and government
What is a colony
500
Patented in 1698, this device was originally designed to remove water from mines. In the following years this device would help to usher in the Industrial Revolution
What is the steam engine
500
Enlightenment philosophers believed that society could best be improved through these ideas
What is "applying reason and laws of nature to social problems"