The name given to the "new world" by the Europeans
What is the Americas?
100
The dominant form of religion in Europe during the Scientific Revolution
What is Christianity?
100
The name of the nation with King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella that helped finance Christopher Columbus's voyage to the new world
What is Portugal?
100
The device that helped sailors navigate better
What is an astrolabe?
100
The name of the exchange that helped to spread different cultures around the world
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
The explorer for whom the Americas were named after
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
200
The one word that best describes the personality of the Scientific Revolution
What is questioning?
200
The nation responsible for the conquest of the Aztec and Inca civilizations in the Americas
What is Spain?
200
The name for a faster and better type of ship useful for exploring
What is a caravel?
200
Where the term "Indians" came from
What is Christopher Columbus's mistaken location?
300
The three areas that made up the triangular trade
What is Africa, Americas, and Europe?
300
The name for the 4-step approach to conduct experiments in a systematic way
What is the Scientific Method?
300
The government that helped sponsor voyages to the new world and included a school for mapmakers, navigators, and shipbuilders
What is Portugal?
300
The scientist who wrote the famous work "Principia"
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
The culture and people that was most impacted by European colonization of the Americas
What are Native Americans?
400
One negative consequence of the Columbian Exchange's ability to connect the world together
What is disease?
400
The approach that sought to understand the world using reason and logic
What is rationalism?
400
The name of the nation that was founded upon philosophers like John Locke who came out of the Scientific Revolution
What is The United States?
400
One example of mercantilism
What is either gathering resources like mining, or increased trade and manufacturing. Both have to do with increasing wealth in order to increase a nation's power.
400
The thinker who is credited with formalizing the Scientific Method
Who is Sir Francis Bacon?
500
The nationality of Christopher Columbus
What is Italian?
500
What institution forced Galileo to declare Copernicus's work to be false?
What is the Church?
500
Rock, Paper, Scissors. Best out of 7. Winner gets 500 points.
What is luck or skill?
500
The economic system that encourages the private ownership of economic resources for a profit
What is capitalism?
500
Besides Christian, what other two religions helped to make great scientific gains during the middle ages in Europe?