Early Exploration
These are two examples of technologies that enabled early Portuguese explorers to sail around Africa.
What are (ex. compass, astrolabe, caravel ship, triangular sails, stern rudder)?
This empire conquered the Aztec and Inca and extracted vast amounts of silver.
What is Spain?
These are two examples of crops indigenous to the New World.
What are (ex. potato, tomato, maize, pumpkins, beans, tobacco, chocolate, etc.)?
The laws describing motion and gravity, which led to a deterministic view of the world, were formulated by this scientist.
Who is Isaac Newton?
These describe two general ideals of the Enlightenment.
What are (ex. rationality, individualism, social contract, freedom of worship, free speech, limited government, abolitionism, egalitarianism, etc.)?
These are four examples of fictional characters that have appeared as playable Fortnite characters.
Who are (???)
This is the primary reason Spain and Portugal were seeking maritime trade routes instead of the usual Silk Roads.
What is Ottoman capture of Constantinople, blocking Christian merchants?
This empire controlled Brazil and focused heavily on sugar plantations.
What is Portugal?
These are two examples of crops indigenous to the Old World.
What are (ex. rice, wheat, sugarcane, bananas, grapes, coffee, etc.)?
He was the scientist who first proposed the heliocentric model of the Solar System, going against centuries of Church doctrine.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This philosopher argued government exists to protect the natural and inalienable rights of life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
These are the two quarterbacks appearing in Superbowl LX (the one on Sunday).
Who are Drake Maye and Sam Darnold?
Endorsed by the pope, this 1494 agreement divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal along an imaginary line.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This empire built its North American colonies around fur trading and Indigenous alliances.
What is France?
This term describes the brutal and grueling journey across the Atlantic for African slaves.
What is the Middle Passage?
This astronomer refined the telescope, used it to observe Jupiter’s moons, and confirmed the heliocentric model (leading to his house arrest).
Who is Galileo Galilei?
He famously said that "Men are born free, and everywhere he is in chains."
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Including the Fantastic Beast movies, this is how many total "Harry Potter" movies that have been released.
What is 11?
This is one of the two Portuguese explorers who traveled and created trading posts around Africa to access Indian Ocean trading networks.
Who are Prince Henry the Navigator and Vasco da Gama?
This empire prioritized trade, joint-stock companies, and merchant capitalism, especially in Southeast Asia.
What is the Netherlands?
The deadly disease brought by Europeans that devastated Indigenous populations.
What is smallpox?
He proved existence through his famous proposition "I think, therefore I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?
This was the primary economic philosophy of Adam Smith.
What is laissez-faire (free trade)?
Besides One Piece, these are TWO animes that have released over 500 episodes.
What are (???)
Who is Magellan?
This empire emphasized self-governing colonies and large-scale permanent settlement (except in its India colony).
What is Britain?
The economic system that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through trade.
What is the triangular trade?
This term describes evidence that can be observed, recorded, and replicated to determine scientific laws.
What is empirical evidence?
Montesquieu believed that a balanced government would keep checks on itself through these three branches.
What are the judiciary, executive, and legislative branches?
Name any current justice on the Supreme Court.
Who are (???)