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100
A tool used for seeing distance objects.
What is a telescope?
100
Defined the first element.
Who is Robert Boyle?
100
The Earth is the center of the universe while, the moon and sun revolved around it.
What is the geocentric theory?
100
Discovered America instead of sailing to China.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
Caused the beginnings of modern science.
What is the Age of Exploration?
200
A light, fast sailing ship.
What is a caravel?
200
First person to circumnavigate(or sail completely around)the world.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
A global exchange between Europe and America.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
They discovered avocados, beans, cashews, chili peppers, chocolate, corn, papayas, peanuts, pecans, pineapples, potatoes, rubber, squash, strawberries, sweet potatoes, tobacco, tomatoes and vanillan in the new nation.
What plants did Europe discover from America?
200
The Enlightenment was caused by this event.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
300
Invented the first periodic table.
Who is Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier?
300
Two important scholars that helped develop the scientific methond.
Who are Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes?
300
A Spanish conquerer.
What is a Conquistador?
300
He discovered gravitational force and the laws of motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
The result of the scientfic method.
What is the Age of Reason?
400
A new type of mathematics invented by Isaac Newton.
What is calculus?
400
Without him we wouldn't know the anatomy of the human body
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
400
Grants of money.
What are subsidies?
400
Wrote "The Sceptical Chemist" and described cluster of tiny particles (atoms).
Who is Robert Boyle?
400
The discovery of America led to a new nation.
What did the discovery of America lead to?
500
Estates where crops such as sugar or tobacco were grown.
What is a plantation?
500
The second man to circumnavigate(or sail around) the world.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
500
The theory that proved the earth revolves around the sun.
What is the heliocenric theory?
500
Europe's goal was to find a shorter path to China.
What was Europe's goal?
500
These events helped strentghen the cause for the America Revolution.
What did the Enlightment, scientific revolution and the Age of Reason do to change America?