Causes
What is the Age of Exploration?
First country to launch large scale voyages
What is Portugal?
Impact of the Age of Exploration on Europe, the Americas, and Africa
What is new wealth for Europe, death and destruction for Americas and Africa?
Focus of the Scientific Revolution
What is the physical universe?
Synonym for reason
What is logic?
Country that controlled trade in Europe during the Renaissance
What is Italy?
Continent Christopher Columbus thought he had reached
What is Asia?
Economic principle stating a country's strength is based on wealth
What is mercantilism?
What is the Scientific Method?
Social gatherings hosted by Parisian women to discuss ideas
What are salons?
Word for sailing entirely around the world
What is circumnavigate?
Advances in technology that allowed for exploration
What are better boats and navigation tools?
Percentage of Native Americans who died due to European interaction
What is 90%?
Theory first proposed by Copernicus and proven by Galileo
What is heliocentric theory?
Question Enlightenment philosophers asked themselves
Goal for most European explorers funded by monarchs
What is trade route to Asia?
Agreement between Spain and Portugal dividing the New World
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
Name three things exchanged through the Columbian Exchange
Disease (smallpox, measles, syphilis, etc) , foods (tomatoes, tobacco, peppers, potatoes, olives, sugar, spices, etc), animals (horses, cattle, donkeys, llamas, etc)
What is contradictory explanations?
Rulers who accepted some Enlightenment ideas
What are Enlightened despots?
Catherine the Great, King Frederick II of Prussia, King Joseph II of Austria
Name two reasons individual explorers would set sail
What are wealth, fame and glory, spreading religion, and curiosity?
Name three European explorers
Columbus, Magellan, Pizarro, Vespucci, Drake, Cartier, Hudson, da Gama, Balboa
The three steps to Triangular Trade
1. European goods to Africa
2. African slaves to the Americas
3. American goods to Europe
Scientific Revolution's impact on art
Consequences of the Enlightenment
What are the American and French revolutions?