Who
These Catholic monarchs ruled Spain at the time of Christopher Columbus’s first voyage
Ferdinand and Isabella
This sequence of observation and analysis remains central how we build out knowledge of the natural world.
The Scientific Method
Christopher Columbus accidentally came to the Caribbean after setting sail for which subcontinent?
It was in this year that Christopher Columbus “sailed the Ocean Blue”
1492
This larger-than-life personality took six wives and brought the Protestant Reformation to England
Henry VIII
This fifteenth-century innovation transformed the world of written communication and enabled a print culture to form across Europe.
The Printing Press
The Dutch established its first overseas American colony which present-day American state?
New York
Did somebody order a Reformation? In this year, Martin Luther posted his 95 Theses and established a major schism with the Catholic Church
1517
This French monarch believed in doctrines of absolute rule and lived in opulence at Versaille, earning him the nickname “The Sun King”
Louis XIV
This event, whose name literally means “rebirth,” signaled a return to ancient learning across Europe.
The Renaissance
With print culture booming across Europe, this country became famous for it “public Sphere” of learning and ideas.
England
It was in this year that Constantinople fell to the Ottomans and became what we now call Istanbul
1453
This Portuguese mariner achieved new levels of fame when he became the first European to sail around the Cape of Good Hope to India
Vasco de Gama
This is the name given to theories of planetary motion that center around the sun
Heliocentric
New France corresponds with which present-day nation?
Canada
In this year, the Treaty of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years’ War and established the European state system we still know and love today.
1648
This Chinese mariner, explorer, and diplomat was also a court eunuch during China’s Ming Dynasty
Zheng He
We also know this as the “Age of Reason”
The Enlightenment
The political concept of “the social contract” emerged in which European country?
England
England’s Glorious Revolution saw the ousting of the Catholic Stuarts in this year.
1688