Scientific Revolution
This is the term for the period when scientific thinking and experimentation dramatically increased in Europe?
What is Scientific Revolution?
These two European nations were a leader in Exploration in the 15th and 16th Centuries.
Who are Spain and Portugal
This individual is known for "discovering" the new world.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These were the main goods and commodities that European explorers sought in the Eastern Hemisphere.
What are:
- Spices (such as pepper, cinnamon, and cloves), silks, precious metals, and gems?
This event that occurred in the Netherlands saw the cost of tulips rise by 2000% before falling by over 2000% several years later.
What is TulipMania?
This individuals is often credited with starting the Scientific Revolution by proposing the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus.
Two inventions helped improve navigation during the Age of Exploration name one.
What is the astrolabe/improved maps (Cartography)
This individual led the first expedition to circumnavigate the Earth, although he died during the journey?
Who is Magellan?
The Portuguese set up these in order to help resupply and maintain ships as they mapped the coast of Africa.
What are forts?
This is the term for the belief that the Earth is at the center of the universe?
What is geocentric?
This view sparked by the work done by Polish Scientist Nicolaus Copernicus sparked a revolution in scientific thought specifically against the existing view from Greek Mathematician Ptolomey and the Bible that the earth was the center of the universe.
What is the Heliocentric view ?
These were the three primary motivations for European nations to establish colonies in the New World.
What are Gold, Glory and God.
This man is often called the "father of modern physics" for his groundbreaking work in mechanics and gravity.
Issac Newton
These are the different steps of the Chinese Tribute system
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Two inventions helped improve navigation during the Age of Exploration name one.
What is The astrolabe/improved maps (cartography).
This invention allowed scientists to study distant objects in space more closely and led to many astronomical discoveries.
What is the telescope?
This was the name of the treaty that divided the newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal in 1494.
What is the treaty of Treaty of Tordesillas.
This person was credited with mapping the eastern coastline of South America and giving the continent its name.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci.
This was the response of Korea and Japan to European Exploration.
Daily Double
This Chinese admiral led seven large voyages of exploration in the Indian Ocean during the Ming Dynasty, commanding the largest fleet on earth until the 1900s.
Who is Zheng He?
Daily Double
Correctly list the steps of the scientific method.
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This European explorer is credited with the discovery of the Pacific Ocean in 1513?
Who is Vasco Núñez de Balboa.
This Portuguese explorer sailed around the southern tip of Africa, known as the Cape of Good Hope, in 1488.
Who is Bartolomeu Dias.
The Ottoman Empire played this role in controlling trade routes between Europe and Asia during the Age of Exploration.
What is The Ottoman Empire controlled key overland trade routes?
- Including the Silk Road and the eastern Mediterranean, making it a major player in Eastern Hemisphere trade.
This group of people inhabited the island of Hispaniola in the 1400s. By 80 years after Columbus landed their population went from close to 2 million down to 500.
Who are the Taíno people