What frenchman explored the St. Lawrence River?
Who was the fist person to sail circumvent the earth?
Magellan | What Englishman discovered Newfoundland? | John Cabot |
What frenchman explored the St. Lawrence River? | Jacques Cartier |
Who set up a research center for navigators? | Prince Henry |
Who thought they had discovered India, but was wrong? | Christopher Columbus |
What is mercantilism? | gaining power by building stores of gold and silver |
What is to export? | Send goods out of a country. |
What is an entrepeneur? | A person that invests in a business. |
What is a cottage industry? | Businesses run out of homes for merchants. |
What is a joint stock company? | A business that people can invest in by buying a share |
What two important foods were taken to America from Europe? | corn and potatoes |
What is a caravel? | A small ship that could go faster and zig zag in the ocean |
What made their way to Europe from the Americas? | tomatoes, squash, beans |
What caused millions of Africans to be enslaved in the Carribean? | growing of sugarcane |
What were some of the bad things brought to the Americas? | Diseasees such as smallpox, measles, and malaria |
Who thought the earth was the center of the universe? | Ptolemy |
What is an organized study of the natural world and how it works? | Science |
What is an explanation of how or why something works? | Theory |
What was the first science affected by the scientific revolution? | Astronomy |
What is heliocentric? | Sun centered |
Who believed that new knowledge comes from experimentation? | Galileo |
Who wrote the book PRINCIPIA, and stated his laws? | Sir Issac Newton |
Who stated 'earth orbits the sun and earth rotates on its axis'? | Copernicus |
Who explained how things burned? | Lavoisier |
Who said that all elements could not be broken down? | Boyle |