Study Guide for test on Scientific Revolution and Exploration
People: (you can find most of these on your vocabulary sheets but some are on worksheets)
Know each of these people and what famous thing they did:
Galileo, Vasco da Gama, Magellan, Kepler, Cortes, Robert Boyle, Copernicus, Newton, Edward Jenner, Bartolomeau Diaz
Scientific Revolution:
What were the new inventions of the Scientific Revolution?
How did each of these inventions help scientists and others?
What is a geocentric view?
What is a heliocentric view?
What got Galileo in trouble with the Church?
What were Newton’s main contributions?
What is genetic engineering?
Why did the Church have problems with the Scientific Revolution?
What were the churches concerns?
What is the scientific method?
What are the steps of the method?
How do the ideas of the Scientific Revolution affect us today?
What is a theory?
How did medicine change during the Scientific Revolution?
What brought about this change in medicine?
What famous book did Newton write?
What famous book did Copernicus write?
Who was Ptolemy? Why was he important before the Scientific Rev? How did his ideas lose importane?
Exploration:
Whose views of the world did most Europeans look to before the scientific revolution and the age of exploration?
What helped change the above answer?
How did exploration affect various peoples of the world (Africans, Natives, Europeans, etc.)?
What book was written that discussed the treatment of Natives by the Spanish?
Who wrote the above book?
Who was Henry the Navigator?
What was the Columbian Exchange?
What did each side give to the other during the Columbian Exchange?
How did each side benefit or not benefit from the Columbian Exchange?
What was a plantation?
What was a slave? Where did they work?
How did slaves get to the new world? What was the experience like?
Who was Christopher Columbus?
What was Columbus trying to discover? What did he actually discover?
How did Columbus get to the new world?
How did the English gain dominance on the seas?
What new technologies helped explorers?
Why were Europeans interested in the Americas and exploration in general?
New Systems of Trade:
What is capitalism?
Who owns the means of production in a capitalist system?
What is mercantilism?
What is supply and demand? How does it work?
What is a market economy? How does it work?
How did the discovery of the “New World” help create new systems of trade?
How did the above discovery help make countries rich?
What were the main countries originally involved in exploitation of the New World?
What countries came to dominate the exploitation of the New World after the above countries lost power?
What areas did each country explore? Why?
How do the systems of trade and finance developed during this time period still affect our society today?
Would it have been possible to build these economic systems without slavery and the exploitation of the New World?
What items, in the New World, helped make countries richer?
How did economies switch from Mercantilism to Capitalism?