Scientific Revolution
Model of the solar system with the earth at the center
What is Geocentric?
The first European to discover the Americas.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
The country that made the portable magnetic compass.
What is China?
The Three Sisters.
What are Corn, Beans, and Squash?
To travel or sail completely around
What is circumnavigate?
Galileo used this to prove Copernicus's theory correct.
What is the telescope?
The man the Americas were named after.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The new type of boat that Portuguese used for exploration.
What is the Caravel?
The Incan Beast of Burden.
What is the Llama?
The art of making maps.
What is cartography?
The man who is considered the Father of the Scientific Method.
The new type of boat that Portuguese used for exploration.
What is the caravel?
The tool that was used by explorers to find latitude.
What was the Mariners' Astrolabe?
What was Lake Texcoco? (or a lake)
Who is a Conquistador?
The man who determined that the planets' orbits are elliptical.
Who is Kepler?
The first European to discover the Mississippi River.
Who is Fernando De Soto?
One of Galileo's inventions, other than the telescope.
What is the microscope or the thermometer?
The solution to the Inca problem of farming on the sides of mountains.
What are terraces?
This gave the Spanish colonizers permission to use the labor of the native Americans on the land and everything they produced--basically slavery.
What was the Encomienda System?
The man who created the Heliocentric Model of the solar system.
Who is Copernicus?
The man who named Canada.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
What made Mayan mathematics so advanced.
What is the concept of zero?
The Meso-American Civilization that lived in independent city-states and never unified into an Empire.
Who were the Maya?
The economic theory that involves exploiting colonies for their resources in order to make the mother countries rich and powerful.
What is Mercantilism?