Philosophers
Scientists
Explorers
The Commercial Revolution
The American Revolution
100
Believed to be the greatest thinker of the Enlightenment.
What is Voltaire
100
A great astronomer who believed the universe centered around the Earth.
What is Ptolemy
100
Was the first explorer to discover America when he thought he had discovered a new route to India.
What is Christopher Columbus
100
The idea that a country gains power by building up its supply of gold and silver.
What is Mercantilism
100
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown
200
Wrote many great classic musical pieces during the Enlightenment.
What is Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
200
Combined the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo. Also discovered gravity. Thought to be the greatest scientist in all of history.
What is Sir Isaac Newton
200
First explored the Lawrence River.
What is Jacques Cartier
200
The buying and selling of goods over long distances.
What is Commerce
200
A new colony of which the first settlement was Jamestown.
What is Virginia
300
Wrote the first Encyclopedia including 28 volumes which helped to spread the ideas of the Enlightenment. The book took 20 years to complete.
What is Denis Diderot
300
Thought the sun was the center of the universe.
What is Copernicus
300
Led a voyage across the Atlantic and named Newfoundland.
What is John Cabot
300
Putting money into a project to make more money from the success of said project.
What is Investing.
300
Writer of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Thomas Jefferson
400
Said that supporters in the Enlightenment relied too much on reason.
What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
400
Discovered that planets have elliptical orbits.
What is Johannes Kepler
400
Led the first world-round expedition.
What is Ferdinand Magellan
400
A settlement tasked with producing goods their country does not possess at home.
What is Colony.
400
A trading post set-up by Samuel de Champlain
What is Quebec
500
A great philosopher who argued that mens rights should extend to women during the enlightenment period.
What is Mary Wollstonecraft
500
An English scientist who discovered the existence and function of cells.
What is Robert Hooke
500
Conquerer of the Incan Empire.
What is Francisco Pizzaro
500
The company which carried out trade in Asia.
What is Dutch East India Company
500
Worked together on the writing of the Declaration of Independence.
What is Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson
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