Explorers
An Italian explorer who thought he could reach Asia by sailing west. He accidentally “discovered” the Americas.
Who was Christopher Columbus?
“Conquerors” sent from Spain to the New World to search for riches, convert the Indians to Catholicism, and establish Spanish authority.
Who were "conquistadors"?
A document in which the American colonies declared independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The author of the Communist Manifesto and Das Kapital, believed that all history was dominated by class struggle between wealthy owners and laboring poor.
Who was Karl Marx?
Perfected the assembly line process to build his Model T automobiles.
Who was Henry Ford?
A Spanish explorer who discovered the Pacific Ocean.
Who was Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
A Spanish conquistador who conquered the Aztec Empire.
Who was Hernando Cortes?
The monarch in England during the American Revolution.
Who was King George III?
Middle-class property owners, capitalists, and industrialists or factory owners.
Who are the bourgeoisie?
He developed an inexpensive and efficient steel-making process.
Who was Henry Bessemer?
A Spaniard who sailed around the southern tip of South America in 1519. Although he was killed along the way, some of his crew made it safely back to Spain.
Who was Ferdinand Magellan?
The cruelest of all the conquistadors. He conquered the Incan Empire in South America.
Who was Francisco Pizarro?
The idea that government should be based on the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
An economic system designed to advance wealth.
What is capitalism?
He designed the first practical and efficient steam engine.
Who was James Watt?
“The Father of New France”; he explored and colonized the area around the St. Lawrence River.
Who was Samuel de Champlain?
The Aztec king who mistook Cortes for a returning god and was conquered by the Spaniards.
Who was Montezuma?
The political and social order in France before the French Revolution.
What was the Old Regime?
A market economist who believed in private ownership and free trade.
Who was Adam Smith?
He developed a new system of crop rotation.
Who was Charles Townshend?
An Englishman hired by the Dutch to explore the northeastern coast of America in his ship the Half Moon.
Who was Henry Hudson?
The Inca ruler who was captured by Pizarro and held for ransom. He was executed.
Who was Atahualpa?
The French Revolutionary government after the National Convention; overthrown by Napoleon.
What was the Directory?
Tried to prove that organisms developed from simple to complex structures through natural causes over countless ages in a process called evolution. He authored On the Origin of Species (1859) and The Descent of Man (1871).
Who was Charles Darwin?
He invented a seed “drill”, or planter, that enabled farmers to plant more efficiently.
Who was Jethro Tull?