During the Enlightenment, philosophers held gatherings of writers, artists, and government officials in their homes to discuss and debate new ideas. True or False?
What is True?
100
The first sciences.
What is mathematics, astronomy, and medicine?
100
He was the first European to sail west searching for a water route to Asia.
What is Christopher Columbus?
100
In the 1600s, which two country's merchants landed in India and began trading with the people there?
What is England and the French?
100
In the 1500's, Spanish conquistadors explored the south- eastern corner of North America and the lands north of Mexico. True or False?
What is True?
200
This is the French word for "philosopher".
What is philosophe?
200
This Egyptian astronomer stated that the sun and the planets moved around the earth in circular paths.
What is Ptolemy?
200
He led the first expedition to sail completely around the world.
What is Ferdinand Magellan?
200
While they built their empire in America, Portugal began building a trading empire in Asia. Who's "they"?
What is Spain?
200
By what time did the England’s rulers had accepted the ideas of mercantilism.
What is the 1600's?
300
He is known to be the one who did the most to spread Enlightenment ideas.
What is Denis Diderot?
300
These people made many scientific advances, but they did not experiment or test new ideas, to see if they were true.
What is the Greeks?
300
When England heard about this man's journey, they decided to search for a northern route to Asia.
What is Christopher Columbus?
300
This encouraged Europeans to set up trading posts and colonies in Asia and North America.
What is merchantilism?
300
A group of Puritans known as the what decided to go to America so that they could worship freely.
What is Pilgrims?
400
She was a English writer and was known to be the most powerful supporter of women rights.
What is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
This man collected a large amount of information from plants and animals, then separated them into groups based on their similarities and differences.
What is Aristotle?
400
While on his journey across the Atlantic, this man named an island "Newfoundland".
What is John Cabot?
400
As Europeans watched Spain and Portugal grow wealthy from their empires, they tried to figure out how they had become rich, they came up with this idea to do so.
What is mercantilism?
400
Spain remained much more interested in its colonies in Mexico, Peru, and the Caribbean because of what?
What is they provided large amounts of silver and gold?
500
He was known for thinking that supporters of the Enlightenment relied too much on reason.
What is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
500
During this time period, most Europeans were more interested in theology than in the study of nature.
What is the Middle Ages?
500
France sent this man to map America’s coast and find a route through to Asia. (He mapped from what is today North Carolina north to Newfoundland but found no path to Asia.)
What is Giovanni da Verrazano?
500
After defeating the Arab fleet, the Portuguese built trading posts in India, China, Japan, the Persian Gulf, and in the what? (Spice Islands of Southeast Asia)
What is Moluccas?
500
Who built settlements and forts along the northern edge of their territory, to keep other Europeans out of Spanish territory.