Columbus/Da Gama/Diaz/Champlain
While Christopher Columbus sailed westward across the Atlantic Ocean to reach Asia, Vasco da Gama sailed where?
Down the coast and then around the tip of Africa into the Indian Ocean.
The word "Requerimiento" means what?
It is a Spanish word meaning "requirement" or "demand".
The English Bill of Rights is a document that was written as part of what event in English history?
The Glorious Revolution.
What did Galileo consider most astonishing about his experiments with the telescope?
His discovery of four new planets.
According to John Locke, nature is governed by natural law; this natural law prescribes that?
All men are equal and independent.
The document by Bernal Diaz gives us insight into what?
The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
To whom did Hernan Cortes write the letter that you read?
Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain.
Which sector of English society benefited the most from this Bill of Rights?
Parliament.
This passage is from Copernicus’s On the Revolution of the Celestial Spheres, which argues in favor of what?
A new heliocentric understanding of the universe with the sun, not the earth at its center.
What famous principle did Montesquieu present in this work?
Separation of powers.
Samuel de Champlain's voyages took place along rivers in what part of the Americas?
North America.
By de las Casas’s reckoning, loss of indigenous life in the Caribbean and American mainlands in the first fifty years of Spanish presence could be tallied to about what number?
From twelve to above fifty million.
Which offense stands out as perhaps the greatest of all those perpetrated by the king upon the English people?
Trying to return England to the Roman Catholic (papist) Church.
What are Cardinal Bellarmine’s thoughts regarding the scientific proof of heliocentrism?
He is not convinced that a clear enough proof of heliocentrism has been made to throw out the Church’s teaching on geocentrism.
Jean Jacques Rousseau is the author of what?
The Social Contract.
What reception did Da Gama first receive in Calicut?
A cautious welcome but no introduction to the local ruler.
What was the Aztec emperor Montezuma’s (spelled Moctezuma in this document) reaction to Cortes’s placement of Christian imagery in the temple?
Montezuma cautiously informed Cortes that the images would not be well received by the people.
James I is defending the Divine Right of kings, which is the ideological basis for what type of monarchy?
Absolute.
The text written by Isaac Newton discusses which fundamental principle of universal motion?
Gravity and gravitational pull.
All three of these sources represent writings by Enlightenment figures known as what?
Philosophes.
Cortes’s brief overview of Christian doctrine was regarded by Montezuma as what?
Possible validation of an Aztec prophecy.
The resistance of the people of "Guatimala" against the Spanish invaders that las Casas recounts can best be described as a form of what?
A form of guerilla warfare.
Where does James situate his power in the context of English Common Law?
He locates his divine rights within Common Law.
The sources by Copernicus, Galileo, Bellarmine and Newton offer us insight into what?
Emerging methods of scientific inquiry and the conflict between faith and science.
According to John Locke, the main reason people give up their natural freedom to a government is to protect what?
Property.