Explorers
The first explorer who reached Newfoundland found a huge number of
Fish
What explorer first reached Newfoundland?
John Cabot
The science of stars is called
Astronomy
How many wives did Henry VIII have in all?
VI (six)
What changed the world more than any other invention.
The Printing Press
The first English colony in the New World was named
Virginia
What "treasure" did Cartier find in Canada?
Quartz
A sad play is called a
Tragedy
Elizabeth was nicknamed
Good Queen Bess
People who wanted the church to change were called
Reformers
Name two things the English ships brought back from the east coast of North America.
Pearls, animal skins, potatoes, and tobacco.
What did Jacques Cartier name the vast expanse of land in North America?
Canada (After the Micmac word for village)
What do we call the study of why objects behave as they do?
Physics
The English people’s nickname for Mary was
The word “Renaissance” means
rebirth
Who was beheaded for not bringing back gold from South America.
Sir Walter Raleigh
What three (3) items did the English, Spanish or Portuguese ships take from Africa?
Gold, ivory, and African captives (slaves).
Who wrote Macbeth, Romeo & Juliet and other plays/sonnets?
William Shakespeare
Why was Henry VIII unhappy with so many of his wives?
They could not give him a son to be his heir.
Martin Luther wrote a list called the
Ninety-five Theses
The Spanish built a huge fleet of ships called the
Spanish Armada
Who was the first English baby born in the New World?
Virginia Dare
Name two (2) of the experiments Galileo did to find out how things worked?
He threw balls; he swung pendulums; he moved objects with levers; he shot cannonballs; he dripped water from one cup into another.
What do we call the years of Elizabeth’s reign?
the Elizabethan Age
Observing something and then drawing conclusions from your observations is known as the