Important People
This Astronomer used the telescope to confirm Copernicus' idea that the earth revolves around the sun, not the other way around.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
This king of France was perhaps the most successful absolutist monarch.
Who was Louis XIV?
This holiday commemorates the landing of Artur Philip in Australia.
What is Australia Day?
In this model of the solar system, the earth is at the center.
What is the geocentric model?
This group of people made up most of the colonists of Austrailia.
Who were convicts and debtors?
This man became "Lord Protector" of England after the English Civil War.
Who was Oliver Cromwell?
Abel Tasman discovered this Island that would become a state of Australia.
Where is Tasmania?
This was an attempt by Thor Heyerdahl to sail from Paru to the Islands of Oceana on a balsa raft.
What was the Kon-Tiki expedition?
In this model of the solar system, the sun is at the center.
What is the heliocentric model?
This was the main country to colonize Australia.
Where is England?
This Empress of Russia greatly expanded the territory of the Russian Empire.
Who was Cathrine the Great?
This astronomer suggested that the sun, not the earth, was at the center of the solar system. His ideas would later influence Galileo to draw the same conclusion.
Who was Nicholas Copernicus?
A civil war occurred in this country after the king tried to arrest his political oppenets in Parliment.
Where is England?
Some people called the 17th and 18th centuries this to suggest that people had moved beyond superstitious beliefs.
What is the Age of Reason?
This invention helped prevent disease by introducing a dead or weakened form of the disease to the body.
What is a vaccine?
This king of England was executed by his own people.
Who was Charles I?
This Spanish Explorer discovered the Solomon Islands.
Who was Alvero de Medina?
This occurred when William of Orange and his wife mary rose to power in England without bloodshed.
What was the Glorious Revolution?
This is the idea that truth can only be determined through human reason.
What is rationalism?
These are the 6 states of Australia
What are Tasmania, Queensland, Victoria, New South Wales, South Australia, and Western Australia?
This British explorer discovered many islands including the Hawaiian Islands.
Who was Captain James Cook?
This man was a missionary to Papua New Guinea.
Who was James Chalmers?
William and Mary had to agree to sign this document as a condition of receiving the throne of England.
What was the English Bill of Rights?
This is the idea that truth can only be determined by observable evidence.
What is empiricism?
These are the 3 regions of Oceania.