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invented the movable-type printing press, making books more available to the public.
Gutenberg
made many discoveries in astronomy and mathematics.
Maya empire
People of pure Spanish or Portuguese descent who were born in America were known as:
Creoles
ruler who turned Vienna into an important center for the arts during the 1700s.
Maria Theresa
an explorer for Spain.
Alvaro de Mendaña
a scholar from Rotterdam wrote In Praise of Folly.
Erasmus
Name of the god the people of the Aztec empire expected to return.
Quetzalcoatl
a colonial ruler who represented the Spanish king.
viceroy
a Greek astronomer and geographer.
Eratosthenes
The following locations were explored by Abel Tasman:
Australia, New Zealand, and Tasmania
a reformer who was burned at the stake.
Huss
The following were members of the alliance known as the Five Civilized Tribes
Seminoles, Cherokees, and Creeks
Large country estates in Spanish colonies
haciendas
developed an advanced form of calculus and discovered the laws of gravity and motion.
Newton
explorer who colonized Tahiti for France.
Louis Antoine de Bougainville
The dismissal of an individual from the Roman Church.
excommunication
The following navigational aids were used by the European explorers
compass, trade winds, and astrolabe
a French explorer who discovered the St. Lawrence River.
Jacques Cartier
scientist who studied human anatomy.
Vesalius
Explorer who was killed on the Hawaiian Islands.
Captain James Cook
sailed west in 1492 to find a route to China and discovered a new continent.
Christopher Columbus
a Portuguese nobleman who once famously said, “Independence or death!”
Pedro I
scientist who wrote The Sceptical Chymist.
Boyle
Explorer who discovered New South Wales.
Captain James Cook