Colonial Powers
Which country colonized Brazil?
What is Portugal?
The transfer of people, goods, plants, animals, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This astronomer proposed the heliocentric model.
Who is Copernicus?
He was a monk and a theology professor who wrote the 95 Theses and published them in 1517.
Who is Martin Luther?
I founded the Calvinist denomination.
Who is John Calvin?
Which country established settlements and fur trade posts in today Canada and North America?
What is France?
European countries established these overseas territories to gain resources, wealth, and political power.
What are colonies?
Who is Newton?
Payments and donations for the remission of punishment for sins.
What are the indulgences?
I founded the Jesuits order.
Who is Ignatius of Loyola?
Which country conquered the Aztec and Inca empires?
What is Spain?
This European country established colonies in the Caribbean and parts of South America, including present-day Venezuela and Colombia.
What is Spain?
He developed three laws of planetary motions.
Who is Kepler?
The king who established the Anglican church in England just so that he could divorce his wife and marry his mistress.
Who is Henry VIII?
I formulated universal gravitation and the laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
An economic system aimed at increasing national wealth and power through exporting resources MORE than importing.
What is mercantilism?
He invented and developed the telescope.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
The Catholic Church's response to Protestantism through reform and reaffirmation of Catholic doctrine.
What is the Counter-Reformation?
I conquered and annihilated the Inca empire in the 1530s.
Who is Francisco Pizarro?
This Spanish conquistador conquered the Aztec empire.
Who is Hernán Cortés?
A Spanish colonial system granting colonists rights to Indigenous labor or tribute with the promise of protection and safety.
What is the encomienda system?
This method requires observation and experimentation to support or debunk a thesis.
What is the scientific method?
This war between Catholics and Protestants lasted from 1618 to 1648 and ended with the Peace of Westphalia.
What is the Thirty Years’ War?
When ordered to deny my scientific belief in the heliocentric model, I whispered under my breath: "And yet it moves!"
Who is Galileo?