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The Renaissance
Renaissance Scientists
Explorers
Struggle for North America
French/Indian War/Misc.
100
What previous societies were being studied by the people of the Renaissance?
What is Greeks and Romans
100
This scientist used his telescope to prove Copernicus's theories about the solar system. Was later put to trial for his views.
What is Galileo
100
Explorer who discovered North America.
What is Christopher Columbus
100
English Protestants who rejected the English church. Settled in North America.
What is Pilgrims
200
The theory that education should stimulate the individual's creative powers.
What is Humanism
200
Proposed the idea that our solar system was sun-centered, or heliocentric.
What is Copernicus
200
First person to circumnavigate the globe.
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200
Where were the first English colonies?
What is the Atlantic Coast of North America.
200
What are the mapmakers who aided the explorers called?
What is Cartographers
300
What areas of society were changing during the Renaissance?
What is Political, Social, Cultural, Economic
300
Came up with their own method for discovering the truth, also developed the Scientific Method.
What Bacon and Descartes
300
First explorer to reach India, developed trade there for Portugal.
What is Vasco de Gama
300
How were the English colonies governed?
What is appointed royal governors, colonies were self governing for the most part.
300
Name Isaac Newton's major discoveries.
What is Newton's three laws, calculus, gravity
400
A new wave of theories and ideas led by people such as Copernicus, Galileo, etc.
What is Scientific Revolution
400
What medical breakthroughs occurred during the scientific revolution?
What is First detailed description of the human anatomy, first description of the circulation of blood.
400
Divided the non European world into two zones.
What is Line of Demarcation
400
What did the French call their lands in Canada?
What is New France
400
Who was the French and Indian war fought between?
What is France and England
500
Why were theories such as the heliocentric theory rejected by society?
What is because if they were wrong about the world being flat, what else was the church and previous scientists wrong about.
500
What is the scientific method?
What is a scientific method of discovery, hypothesis, research, examining data, coming up with the solution.
500
Who was the first empire to start exploring the world? Who was their leader?
What is Portugal, Prince Henry
500
What was the reason for Portugal, Spain, and England exploring the new world.
What is trade with Asia.
500
What effectively ended the French Indian War?
What is Treaty of Paris