Explorers
An Italian traveler who visited China in the mid-thirteenth century and stirred popular imagination with tales of strange customs and unbelievable riches.
Who was Marco Polo?
A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernando Cortez?
The general of American forces during the American Revolution.
Who was George Washington?
A market economist who believed in private ownership and free trade.
Who was Adam Smith?
They made the first successful airplane flight in 1903.
Who were Orville and Wilbur Wright?
Often called “The Navigator”, he was largely responsible for Portugal’s early success in exploration.
Who was Prince Henry?
The cruelest of all the conquistadors. He conquered the Incan Empire in South America.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which define liberties and places restraints on government interference.
What are the Bill of Rights?
A system in which the government doesn’t interfere in business and trade but provides a favorable climate for business activity.
What is laissez faire?
He invented the cotton gin, allowing one person to do the work of fifty people separating the fiber from the cotton seed manually.
Who was Eli Whitney?
A Portuguese explorer who discovered and sailed around the southern tip of Africa.
Who was Bartolomeu Diaz?
The Aztec king who mistook Cortes for a returning god and was conquered by the Spaniards.
Who was Montezuma?
King of France during the French Revolution. He was executed by guillotine.
Who was Louis XVI?
Government ownership of the means of production and the distribution of goods for the presumed welfare of society.
What is Socialism?
He perfected the assembly line process to build his Model T automobiles.
Who was Henry Ford?
A Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean.
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
The Inca ruler who was captured by Pizarro and held for ransom. He was executed.
Who was Atahualpa?
He had Danton guillotined but was soon arrested and guillotined himself.
Who was Maximilien de Robespierre?
The working class within a Marxist worldview.
What is the proletariat?
He invented a seed “drill”, or planter, that enabled farmers to plant more efficiently.
Who was Jethro Tull?
The first great French explorer who made three voyages to what is now eastern Canada.
Who was Jacques Cartier?
A Roman Catholic friar who wrote several books describing the cruelties of the Spanish.
Who was Bartolome de las Casas?
A twelve-man committee headed by Robespierre that managed the everyday affairs of the French Revolutionary government.
What was the Committee of Public Safety?
Adam Smith’s most influential book. Published in 1776, it attacked mercantilism and advocated capitalism and free trade.
What is The Wealth of Nations?
He developed a new system of crop rotation.
Who was Charles Townshend?