Scientific Revolution
This 17th-century European movement resulted in the rise of scientific research, experimentation, and rational thinking.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This revolution marked the end of the Enlightenment.
What is the French Revolution?
What were exchanged internationally in the 16th-century world economy?
What are manufactured goods, foods, and customs?
He was an Italian sailing for Spain who believed he could reach the Indies by sailing west, landing in San Salvador in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This period of radical social and political upheaval in France began in 1789 and led to the rise of Napoleon.
What is the French Revolution?
This scientist, alongside Copernicus, Bacon, and Galileo, is considered one of the fathers of the Scientific Revolution.
Who is Isaac Newton?
The Enlightenment was driven by this rising social class.
What is the Middle Class?
Which societies had already surpassed Western Europe before the Europeans achieved maritime dominance?
Who are the Vikings, Chinese, and Muslims?
This navigational tool, improved during the Age of Exploration, allowed sailors to determine direction more accurately.
What is the mariner's compass?
This historical event marked the beginning of the American Revolution in 1776.
What is the American Declaration of Independence?
This term describes the belief that God's role was to set natural laws in motion, not to regulate them continuously.
What is Deism?
Enlightenment thinkers had a distrust of this and believed scientific methods could be applied to society.
What is Tradition and Religion?
What type of ships did Europeans improve to aid in their maritime dominance?
What are better sailing ships?
This 1494 treaty divided newly discovered lands between Spain and Portugal, with lands east of the line going to Portugal and lands west to Spain.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
His rise to power followed the French "Reign of Terror" and led to the high point of his empire.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
Before the Scientific Revolution, science was often mixed with moral philosophy, theology, numerology, alchemy, and magic and was called this.
What is natural philosophy?
The 17th century signaled the end of this system, leading to the rise of absolute monarchs.
What is the Feudal System?
Who financed Portugal's exploration to discover new lands and routes to India in the mid-1400s?
Who is Prince Henry the Navigator?
This Portuguese explorer, sailing for Spain, is credited with being the first to circumnavigate the world, although he was killed in the Philippines.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This basin was a world of intellectual and cultural exchange during the Atlantic Revolutions.
What is the Atlantic basin?
The voyages of discovery and this process, involving the translation of ancient and medieval works into vernacular languages, were causes of the Scientific Revolution.
What is exploration?
The introduction of New World crops during the Enlightenment led to this significant demographic change.
What is a population explosion?
What term describes the exchange of diseases, resources, and other items between the New and Old World?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This explorer, who sailed to the Americas in the late 1400s and early 1500s, is the reason why the continent is named America.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This 1787 document generated a federal constitution and joined 13 formerly separate colonies into a new nation.
What is the U.S. Constitution?