Chapter 16
Before the 1500s, scholars often decided what was true or false by reading __________.
The Bible
In 1543, ___________ said that the sun was at the center of the universe.
Nicolaus Copernicus
What was the force Newton discovered that keeps planets in orbit around the sun?
Gravity
__________ established a school for sailors in Portugal.
Prince Henry
For the Spanish, the former Aztec and Inca Empires became ___________.
New Spain
The name of the steps that scientists use to discover the truth is the __________.
Scientific Method
_______________ concluded that the earth’s orbit around the sun was in the shape of an ellipse.
Johannes Kepler
What did the scientist Andreas Vesalius study?
Anatomy
What was one problem that sailors faced in traveling around the southern tip of Africa?
Harsh weather
The Spanish explorer ______ traveled as far west as the Mississippi River.
Hernando de Soto
At the heart of the scientific method is the __________?
Experiment
The Law of Gravity was __________ most important discovery.
Isaac Newton
Which English scientist discovered that blood circulates through the body?
William Harvey
Who led the expedition that proved the world was round?
Ferdinand Magellan
__________ was a Spanish priest who tried to help the native people.
Bartolome de las Casas
The ________ is an educated guess in the scientific method.
Hypothesis
How did the church punish Galileo for his support of Copernicus’s theory?
Imprisonment
Benjamin Franklin proved that lightning is a form of _____________
Static Electricity
Many Spaniards came to the Americas in the 1500s for ______, Gold and Glory
God
Bartolome de las Casas suggested to the Spanish King that ______ workers could take the palace of the native workers.
African
The scientific method has _____ steps.
5
What did Newton prove by using a prism?
Reflective light
___________ controlled the trade routes to India and China during the 1300s
Italian-City-States
The Aztec ruler __________ thought that Cortes was a god.
Montezuma
The Spanish used a system of forced physical labor that they called the ______________.
Encomineda