Age of Exploration
The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
Politics and Society
100
Between 1500 and 1800, strong empires in this region led European sailors to focus upon trade rather than conquest.
Asia
100
This group of opponents targeted by Descartes claimed that reliable human knowledge was impossible.
Skeptics
100
The deist metaphor for God.
a watchmaker
100
This resulted in the English Bill of Rights.
The Glorious Revolution
200
Sailors from this nation cracked the wind system in the Atlantic Ocean, allowing them to travel quickly around the southern coast of Africa.
Portugal
200
The shape of planetary orbits, according to Kepler.
ellipses
200
The focus of Mary Astell’s Serious Proposal.
female education
200
Louis XIV created this in order to be less reliant on his nobility.
A permanent army
300
An underestimate of this led Columbus to conclude that he could safely reach Asia by sailing west.
the earth’s size
300
Invention of Isaac Newton, yielding un-blurry, magnified images.
reflecting telescope
300
Form of punishment preferred by many Enlightenment thinkers.
imprisonment
300
One of the few nations in Europe without a king.
the Netherlands
400
A lack of these discouraged Europeans from exploring the interior of Africa between 1500 and 1800.
Navigable waterways
400
A test devised by Descartes led him to doubt that mathematical truths could be a foundation for knowledge.
the Evil Genius Test
400
The country on whose government Montesquieu based his separation of powers in Spirit of the Laws.
England
400
Absence of these caused food shortages in Europe during the 1600s.
disease outbreaks
500
This people group was among the first long-range ocean travelers, settling Pacific islands including Hawaii and Easter Island.
Polynesians
500
Calculus, invented by Isaac Newton, helps to easily find the area of these.
curved shapes
500
Social setting in which women impacted Enlightenment thought.
salons
500
Losing to England in this war in the 1700s was a major blow to French finances.
Seven Years’ War
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