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Jeopardy on Exploration and Expansion
Scientific Revolution
1. View that the earth is the center of the universe (geocentric theory)
2. View that the sun is the center of the universe (heliocentric theory)
3. Use of observation, experimentation, and mathematical analysis
(scientific method)
4. Dissected human bodies; produced anatomy book (Vesalius)
5. English philosopher; emphasized research and power of science
(Frances Bacon)
More Scientific Revolution
1. Came up with the heliocentric theory; couldn’t prove it; feared the RCC
(Nicholas Copernicus)
2. Proved the heliocentric theory using ellipses (Johannes Kepler)
3. Used the telescope to observe sun, Moon, Saturn (Galileo)
4. First to accurately describe the circulator system (William Harvey)
5. French philosopher who rejected everything based on the authority of
others (Rene Descartes)
Expansion
1. Corporation that sold shares and shared profit (joint stock company)
2. Tax on imports (tariff)
3. Government’s goal is to increase wealth of country (Mercantilism)
4. Grants of money from the government (subsidy)
5. How were ships improved (longer, larger; more sails of varying sizes;
rudder moved to rear of ship; easier to sail in open water)
More Expansion
1. Conquered areas (colonies)
2. 2 goals for conquering areas (find valuable items and sell
manufactured goods)
3. Treaty that divided the Western hemisphere into Spanish and
Portuguese areas (Treaty of Tordesillas)
4. Plants, products, animals and diseases travel between the Eastern and
Western hemispheres (Columbian exchange)
5. Social changes that caused expansion (population growth, curiosity,
escape religious persecution, quick profit)
Wild Card
1. New instruments in scientific revolution (thermometer, barometer,
microscope, telescope)
2. Fought with Newton over who invented calculus (Leibnitz)
3. Invented the microscope (Leewenhoek)
4. Synthesized the major ideas of the scientific revolution with his laws of
motion (Isaac Newton)
5. Magnetized needle originally floated in water (compass)
Round 2
Exploration
2. Portuguese “Navigator” who financed exploration to Africa (Henry)
4. As Dias is to Africa, ________ is the India for Portugal (Vasco da Gama)
6. Took over Incan empire (Francisco Pizzaro)
8. Took over Aztec empire (Hernan Cortes)
10. First European to see Pacific after crossing Panama (Balboa)
More Exploration
2. First expedition to circumnavigate the globe (Magellan)
4. Thought he was in India, was actually in the Bahamas (Columbus)
6. Financed first European voyage to Western hemisphere (Ferdinand
and Isabella)
8. Continents in Western hemisphere named for him (Amerigo Vespucci)
10. Portuguese colonies in Asia (Goa, Moluccas, Ceylon)
Slave Trade
2. Ship cotton, weapons and alcohol to Africa; ship slaves to the
Americas; ship plantation products to Europe (triangular trade)
4. Term for horrible trip from Africa to the Americas (Middle Passage)
6. Difference between African and American slave trade (could gain
freedom; not treated as property)
8. Why needed (massive deaths of native people from European disease
combined with growing demand of plantation agriculture)
10. Why did Africans help Europeans acquire slaves (weapons and
European goods)
Colonial Empires
2. Technique used by the Dutch against the Spanish (Guerrilla warfare)
4. Colonial governors in Spanish empire (viceroys)
6. Why did Spain’s empire decline (religious wars, inflation, population
growth, lack of industry, lack of a middle class)
8. Goal of Dutch vs. Goal of Spain/Portugal (make money not convert
and assimilate)
10. Their pirates threatened Spain’s empire (French, Dutch, English)
Wild Card
2. Turning cheap metal into gold (alchemy)
4. King of Spain who failed with invasions of the Netherlands, England,
and France (Philip II)
6. Financial center and warehouse of Europe in the 1600s (Netherlands)
8. Led the Dutch for independence before assassination (William the
Silent)
10. Dutch colonies (Cape Colony, Java, Sumatra, Guiana, Manhattan)