Their ideas are combined to make the scientific method.
Who are Descartes and Bacon?
100
The philosophers influenced by the Scientific Revolution concept of natural laws.
Who were the philosophes?
100
"The earth can't be moving around the sun because we don't feel it. Frankly, we don't care what you can prove with your telescope!"
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
100
He founded a school of navigation.
Who is Prince Henry of Portugal (Henry the Navigator)
200
Cocoa and tomatoes to Europe, Asia, and Africa; small pox and horses to the New World.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
He influenced early western scientific thinking with his belief in a geocentric universe, crystalline spheres, and the Prime Mover.
Who is Aristotle?
200
He go the idea for checks and balances and separation of powers from the Ancient Romans.
Who was Montesquieu?
200
"Absolutism is necessary because societies need a strong central government if it is to progress."
Who was Thomas Hobbes
200
They allowed ships to sail against the wind.
What are lateen sails?
300
Europe's, the colonies', and Africa's trading relationship that resulted from the Age of Discovery.
What is Triangular Trade?
300
Credited with starting the scientific revolution with his theory of a heliocentric universe.
Who is Copernicus?
300
Believed the government had no role in managing a country's economy.
Who was Adam Smith?
300
"Your majesty, as you know, the earth is round and I believe I can sail west to Asia."
Who Christopher Columbus?
300
Their purpose is to provide the Mother country with cheap raw materials and a place to sell finished goods.
What are colonies?
400
The motto of the Spanish explorers.
What is "God, Gold and Glory."
400
Reason is the chief source of knowledge.
What is rationalism?
400
The belief that monarchs should have total power in the governing of their country.
What is absolutism?
400
"Leibniz, you thief!"
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
Although he died before returning home, he is credited with being the first to circumnavigate the globe.
Who is Magellan?
500
The balance of trade should be in favor of the Mother Country. The Mother country sells more then it spends on raw materials and imported goods.
What is mercantilism?
500
The principles on which the modern scientific method are based.
What are observation and experimentation?
500
The belief that people and their government entered an agreement in which people gave up certain natural rights to the government and, in return, the government provide security so that the people could thrive.
What is the social contract?
500
"Wow, these look like monks' cells!"
Who was Robert Hooke?
500
He believed that the universe was orderly place where everything moved according to natural, universal laws.