The age or science and exploration Flashcards
What is the definition of the Geocentric Theory?
A theory that places Earth at the center of the universe.
What is the definition of the Heliocentric Theory?
A theory that places the sun at the center of the universe
Why was the Age of Exploration started?
Because Europeans wanted to trade with Asia without going through the Ottoman Empire.
Where did Columbus actually land?
The Bahamas.
What is the definition of Economics?
The desire for wealth drove Europeans exploration of the East.
What is the Colombian Exchange?
The Colombian Exchange refers to the widespread transfer of plants, animals, culture, human population, technology, diseases, and ideas between the Americas, West Africa, and the old world in the 15th and 16th centuries.
What is Mcdonaldization?
The spread of American culture around the world.
The first English colony at Jamestown was when?
1606
What is an indentured servant?
A person who can buy off their freedom.
England traded what goods?
manufacted goods, luxuries, guns, cloth, iron and beer.
Africa traded what goods?
slaves, gold, ivory, spices and hardwoods
The 13 colonies traded what goods?
fish, livestock, flour, lumber, rum, iron, gunpowder, cloth, tools, whale oil, furs, rice, silk, indigo, tobacco, sugar, molasses and wood
The Caribbean traded what goods?
slaves, sugar and molasses
What a caraval?
a small, fast ship used by Spanish and Portugeuse explorers.
What is a colony?
a group of people that settles in a new land but keeps ties to it’s native country.
What is rivarly?
A competion
What is exploited?
used to their own advantage
What is the Scientific Method?
A logical procedure for developing and testing ideas
What is scientific rationalism?
a school of thought in which observation, expermention, and mathematical reasoning replace anient wisdom and church teachings as the source of scientific truth.
What is smallpox?
A deadly virus that causes high fever and small blisters on the skin
What is quinine?
A substance from the bark of a tree that is an effective remedy for malaria
What is an astrolobe?
An ancient astronomical instrument used to observe and measure celestical bodies
What is a quadrant?
early version of the instrument were derived from astrolobes
What is a magnetic compass?
A navigation tool used a magnetized needle to indicate the direction of the Earth’s magnetic north
What is Realism?
Ends always justify the means
What countries were in the Big 3?
Spain, France and England
What is hedgemony?
you think that you are the soul power.
