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Most important cash crop of the Caribbean and South America and first introduced by Columbus
What is Sugar
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Key invention which allowed the spread of scientific information
What is Printing Press
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First person to observe the moon with a telescope.
What is Galileo
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Along with Aristotle, this physician’s ideas on anatomy dominated European thought for more than ~1000 years.
What is Galen
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Name of the journey from Africa to the Americas for African slaves.
What is Middle Passage
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Most important animal hunted by Native Americans on the plains of North America
What is Buffalo
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Having or representing the sun as the center of the universe
What is Heliocentric
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Polish astronomer who wrote On the Revolution of the Heavenly Spheres
What is Copernicus
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Author of De humani corporis fabrica which created doubt about many of Galen’s ideas.
What is Vesalius
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Galen argued that there were four of these in the body and disease was caused by an imbalance of them.
What is Humor
300
Name of the disease that wiped out the most amount of Native Americans
What is Smallpox
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Greek scholar who worked in Alexandria and “established” that the earth was the center of the universe for +1000 years.
What is Ptolemy
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Danish nobleman who rejected Copernicus and Aristotle/Ptolemy
What is Brahe
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Famous alchemist and doctor who many argue was the first to develop the “scientific method”
What is Paracelsus
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New red dye made from female beetles of the Americas
What is Cochineal
400
People who experienced the highest rise and fall in population due to the potato
What is Irish
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Quasi-chemistry and for-runner for the development of the “scientific method”
What is Alchemy
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Discovered that planets move faster when they are closer to the sun.
What is Kepler
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University where many of the most impressive developments were made in anatomy and medicine.
What is Padua
400
Long distance intellectual community in Europe and America
What is “Republic of Letters”
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largest animal domesticated in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus
What is Llama
500
“Magical” substance made out of human urine and thought to be able to transform substances.
What is Philosopher’s Stone
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To keep the idea of planets orbiting in perfect circles, Ptolemy added these to their movement.
What is Epicycles
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Dutch lens-maker who turned into a professional scientist
What is Leeuwenhoeck
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What are three of the characteristics of a typical witch in Early Modern Europe?
What is Female, Poor, Old, Single, and on the Margins of Society