Voltaire thought people should be free to choose their own ( what)?
100
Nicolaus Copernicus
Which scientist discovered that the Earth orbits the Sun; Earth rotates on its axis?
100
Jacques Cartier
Who explored the St. Lawrence River?
100
The idea that a country gains power by building up its supply of gold and silver.
What is mercantilism?
100
American Revolution.
On April 19, 1775, they met colonial troops at Lexington and fought the first battle of the what?
200
François-Marie Arouet, known as Voltaire.
The greatest thinker of the Enlightenment was?
200
Galileo Galilei
Which scientist discovered that other planets have moons?
200
Vasco da Gama
Who was the first European to
sail around the south of Africa and reach India?
200
Spices and silk for sale in Europe.
The Spanish shipped silver to the Philippines from America and then used it to buy Asian what?
200
Tobacco, rice, indigo, wheat, lumber, fur, deerskin leather, fish, and whale products. These were then shipped to Great Britain and traded for manufactured goods.
The American colonies produced raw materials, such as ?
300
Denis Diderot
Who was the French philosopher who did the most to
spread Enlightenment ideas and a published large, 28-volume encyclopedia.
300
Johannes Kepler
Which scientist discovered that planets have elliptical orbits?
300
Christopher Columbus
Which explorer came up with a daring plan to get to Asia?
300
Moluccas, or Spice Islands of Southeast Asia.
Portuguese built trading posts in India, China, Japan, the Persian Gulf, and in the?
300
Tom Paine
On January 1776, a writer named () made up many minds when he wrote a pamphlet called Common Sense and used strong words to condemn the king and urged the colonists to separate from Great Britain.What was his name?
400
Mary Wollstonecraft
The most powerful supporter of women’s rights was the English writer
400
William Harvey
Which scientist discovered that heart pumps blood?
400
Ferdinand Magellan
Who led the first
expedition to sail completely around the world?
400
mercantilism
Europeans tried to figure out how to become rich, so they came up with the idea of?
400
New York
The first important American victory came in 1777 at the Battle of Saratoga in?
500
Rousseau
Who claimed that supporters of the Enlightenment relied too much on rea- son. Instead, people should pay more attention to their feelings.
500
Isaac Newton
Which scientist discovered about gravity; laws of motion; calculus?
500
Henry Hudson
Who explored the Hudson River and Hudson Bay?
500
Indian Ocean.
Portuguese fought a war against the Muslim merchants in the?
500
Checks and balances
A system called ______ enabled each branch to limit the powers of the other branches.