Renaissance and Reformation
These three words represent the primary motives for European exploration during the 15th and 16th centuries.
What are God, Glory, and Gold?
This historical movement focused on using logic, observation, and experiments to understand the natural world.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This European nation was the ultimate example of an absolute monarchy in the 1600s under King Louis XIV.
What is France?
The Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal Empires are called "___________ Empires" because they used this new technology to conquer territory.
What is gunpowder (or cannons/firearms)?
This term describes the global transfer of plants, animals, diseases, and ideas between the Eastern and Western Hemispheres.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Christopher Columbus sailed across this ocean in 1492 trying to find a faster route to Asia.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution thinkers believed people could improve society by using this human ability rather than relying strictly on tradition or religion.
What is reason (or logic)?
Absolute kings claimed "Divine Right," which meant they believed their authority to rule came directly from this source.
What if God?
All three Gunpowder Empires practiced this major world religion.
What is Islam?
European diseases were especially deadly to Native Americans because indigenous populations lacked this type of protection.
What is immunity?
European explorers were searching for a direct sea route to Asia mainly to buy these valuable trade items.
What are spices?
John Locke argued that all people are born with natural rights, including life, liberty, and this third right.
What is property?
King Louis XIV of France built this grand, expensive palace to display his power and control his nobles.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
The Ottoman Empire became a major world power after capturing this famous capital city in 1453.
What is Constantinople?
This American crop became a major food source in Europe and helped grow its population.
What is the potato (or corn)?
Explorers used this magnetic tool to tell which direction they were traveling at sea.
What is a compass?
According to Enlightenment ideas, a government gets its power from the consent of this group of people.
Who are the governed (or the citizens/people)?
King Louis XIV was known by this nickname, symbolizing that everything in France revolved around him.
What is the "Sun King"?
This famous ruler of the Mughal Empire in India was known for practicing religious tolerance.
Who is Akbar the Great?
Sailors traveling along the Indian Ocean trade routes relied on these predictable, seasonal winds to carry their ships safely between Asia and Africa.
What are monsoon winds?
The fall of Constantinople in 1453 forced Europeans to find sea routes because this empire took control of land trade routes.
What is the Ottoman Empire?
This scientist is famous for developing the laws of motion and gravity during the Scientific Revolution.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
In a feudal society or absolute monarchy, a person's social class is usually determined by this factor.
What is birth (or family status)?
Tokugawa Japan tried to protect its culture from European influence by adopting this foreign policy.
What is isolationism (or closing the borders)?
The high demand for labor on American plantations directly led to this forced migration across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?