Name that Scientist
Used a telescope (that he built) to observe that not every heavenly body revolves around the earth - 1632
Galileo Galilei
People began to use experiments and mathematics to understand the Natural World
Scientific Revolution
Tried to find a shorter route to Asia by traveling west
Christopher Columbus
A motto that helped push towards the Age of Exploration.
God, Gold and Glory
Sent to Africa from England
cloth, spirit, tobacco,
beads, cowrie shells, metal goods, and guns.
Gravity - Apple
Issac Newton
Geocentric
Earth centered theory - that the Earth is the center of the universe
Landed in India by sailing east through the Indian Ocean.
Vasco de Gama
A navigation system used to help guide ships/travelors
A Compass
John Newton
Wrote Amazing Grace
Discourse on Method - all assumptions had to be proven on the basis of known facts
"I think, therefor I am"
Rene Descartes
Sun centered Universe
Heliocentric
Bartolomeu Dias
An economic way of supporting a business adventure. Business organizers raised money this way
Joint -Stock Company
Slave who helped abolish the slave trade after being freed.
Discovered the Circulatory System
William Harvey
Mercantilism
A country's government should increase the countries wealth, measured by the amount of gold and silver the country has
Paid for explorations, but did not explore himself.
Prince Henry the Navigator
The reason many individuals fled to the Americas - including those who landed on Plymouth Rock.
Religious Persecution and missionaries
Brutal and degrading
10 mil slaves transported
Middle Passage
Proved the heliocentric theory correct using mathematics - published his laws of planetary motion in 1609
Johannes Kepler
Massive exchanged of goods, plants animals and diseases - between the Western and Eastern Hemispheres.
Columbian Exchange
Discovered the Isthmus of Panama
Vasco Nunez Balbao
Scholars and Church leaders argued against this idea.
The idea that heavenly bodies do not revolve around the Earth.
Ships Doctor, Captain and Equino
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