Age of Exploration
Which explorer believed he had arrived to India when he really landed on America?
Christopher Columbus
Why did the Spanish bring African slaves to America?
To harvest their sugarcane plantations
What was the "Columbian Exchange"? Who did mostly benefit?
The Columbian Exchange was a circular trade pattern between Europe, Asia, and the Americas in an exchange of people, products, diseases, and information. It mostly benefitted the European.
What is the system of steps that Francis Bacon created to experiment, gather data and make theories called?
Scientific method
What was an absolute monarch?
A king or queen that had total power and did not share it.
What was the first country that started to explore for a new route to Asia?
Portugal
What were the reasons why the Spaniards wanted to come to America? What were their goals?
Bring wealth back to Spain and convert the Natives to Christianity.
Crops that are harvested in large amounts to be sold in another country.
Brazil
Before the scientific revolution what did people believe was at the center of the universe? During the scientific revolution what was the new idea about what is in the center of the universe?
A geocentric view of the universe, in which the Earth is the center.
A heliocentric view, in which the sun is in the center and the planets revolve around it.
Why is the Enlightenment called this way? What did the philosophers of this time believe was the light to show truth?
Because reason was considered a light to find truth
Why were Europeans interested in Asia? Why did they need to look for new ways to arrive to Asia by sea?
They wanted spices, medicine, cosmetics, perfumes. They did not want to cross the Silk Road which the Muslims controlled.
Spain was the first country to have a ______ empire.
Global
What was the main idea of the economic theory of mercantilism?
A country's power came from their wealth; how much gold and silver they owned
What law about the pull Earth has on objects did Isaac Newton develop?
The law of gravity
According to the philosophers of the Enlightenment, what was natural law?
The basis of government, something that everyone had naturally and could understand with reason
What other 2 European countries followed Portugal and Spain in exploring America to find another route to Asia?
France and England
What phenomenon hapenned that gave the Spanish a better chance at beating the Natives?
Disease brought from the Spanish killed more than half of the population.
The Age of exploration brought the invention of new methods of business and new business people. What was the new way of exchanging goods called?
Commerce
What did Galileo say was the only correct way to discover scientiifc knowledge?
Through experiments
What was the theory of government that Hobbes formed which stated that the best government is where there is only be one leader who has all the power?
Absolutism
What was the agreement of Portugal and Spain to divide the world between the two called? What event happened for it to be made?
Treaty of Tordesillas
Ferdinand Magellan did a circumnavigate, he traveled around the world and found many uncolonized territories.
Which conquistador ended the Aztec empire? Which conquistador ended the Inca empire?
Hernan Cortés= Aztec
Francisco Pizarro= Inca
The Age of exploration brought the invention of new methods of business and new business people. What was the new term for a business person who invests in a project?
Entrepreneur
Give 2 examples of scientific advancements that were made during the Scientific Revolution in the areas of biology and chemistry? Without considering Isaac Newton's discoveries.
Vesalius made discoveries of human anatomy
Hooke discovered cells
van Leeuwenhoek discovered bacteria
Boyle discovered elements
Lavoisier proved that matter needs oxygen to burn
What are the 3 branches that Montesquie said was the best way a government should be divided in?