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Events in Exploration
100
Who is the explorer that sailed for Spain that ended up discovering the New World?
What is Christopher Columbus?
100
Who is the scientist that made his own telescope and observed space?
What is Galileo?
100
What is the invention that was made to help scientists observe objects up close?
What is a microscope?
100
Who came up with Newton's Laws?
What is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
What was the the trade between the Old World and New World called?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
Who was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world?
What is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
Who were the Greek thinkers that inspired some of the ideas of the Scientific Revolution?
What is Aristotle and Ptolemy?
200
What was the invention made by Galileo that measures temperature?
What is the thermometer?
200
What theory was invented when Newton dropped an apple?
What is the law of gravity?
200
What race of people did Columbus meet in the New World?
What is the Native Americans?
300
What explorer from Portugal made it from Portugal to India, going around the tip of Africa not naming it anything?
What is Vasco Da Gama?
300
Who is the scientist that was persuaded to publish his theories despite church prosecution?
What is Nicolaus Copernicus?
300
What is the invention that help scientists observe objects far away in space?
What is the telescope?
300
What word were Newton's theories called because they were so reliable?
What is laws?
300
What land was Columbus trying to sail to instead of the New World?
What is India/China?
400
Which explorer made it to India, then on his return trip named the tip of Africa "The Cape of good Hope?"
What is Dias?
400
Who is the scientist that came up with the laws of motion and gravity?
What is Sir Isaac Newton?
400
Which Muslim invention allowed explorers to navigate the seas?
What is the astrolabe?
400
What was the word that meant "planets revolve around the sun?"
What is heliocentric?
400
What animal did the New World offer that is usually eaten around Thanksgiving?
What is the turkey?
500
What race of people were the first to reach the New World?
What are the Vikings?
500
Which scientist has names that both begin with the same letter/ have an alliteration?
What is Galileo Galilei?
500
What planet did Galileo first discover with his telescope?
What is Jupiter?
500
What did people think the geography of the world was before exploration?
What is a flat world?
500
What were the people called that came to the New World to start a new life?
What are the Pilgrims?