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Enlightened Discoveries and Empires

Explore the intersection of scientific revolution, enlightenment ideals, and global empires in history. Learn about key figures, events, and concepts from Copernicus to Akbar and beyond.

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Enlightened Discoveries and Empires

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  1. Scientific Revolution/ Enlightenment

  2. Exploration

  3. Muslim Empires: Ottoman and Mughal

  4. Absolutism

  5. Colonies in America

  6. East Asia

  7. SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION/ ENLIGHTENMENT EXPLORATION MUSLIM EMPIRES ABSOLUTISM COLONIES IN AMERICA EAST ASIA $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

  8. Believed in the heliocentric conception of the universe

  9. WHO IS COPERNICUS?

  10. Medieval “natural philosophers” relied on a few ancient authorities, especially Galen and ___________.

  11. Who is Aristotle?

  12. Developed a scientific method built upon inductive principles that became widely used during the Scientific Revolution

  13. Who is Bacon?

  14. Used mathematical proofs that supported his Universal law of gravitation and defined three laws of motion

  15. Who is Newton?

  16. A short-lived Scientific Revolution group that received state salaries and stressed the practical value of scientific research (by collecting machines to study)?

  17. What is the French Royal Academy of Sciences?

  18. Started a school for navigators And outfitted caravels to send ships in search for a sea route around Africa

  19. Who is Prince Henry?

  20. The Treaty of Tordesillas was made between these two nations when the pope drew a line of demarcation running north and south down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean

  21. Who are Spain and Portugal?

  22. This Portuguese mariner working for Spain discovered the strait later named for him at the southernmost tipe of South America; name the Pacific (Peaceful) Ocean

  23. Who is Ferdinand Magellan?

  24. The system where Native Americans In Spanish America paid a share of What they harvested to the leading Spaniard in Exchange for protection; they were also Expected to convert to Catholicism

  25. What is the encomienda system?

  26. The first Europeans to import enslaved Africans to work on their plantations in North American to grow sugar, rice, tobacco, and indigo

  27. Who are the French?

  28. Christian Byzantine city destroyed by Mehmet II’s Ottoman forces

  29. What is Constantinople?

  30. Young Christian men taken to serve As the elite guard and well-armed infantry Of the Ottoman sultan

  31. What are the Janissaries?

  32. Greatest Ottoman sultan whose forces were Stopped at Vienna by the Austrians And defeated by the Spanish at Lepanto, thus Keeping the sultan from ruling Western Europe And all of the Mediterranean Sea.

  33. Who is Suleyman the Magnificent?

  34. Grandson of Babur, he conquered and extended Mughal rule to most of the Indian subcontinent

  35. Who is Akbar?

  36. After defeating the Mughal forces in the Battle Of Plassey, it won the right to collect taxes Around Calcutta and began the process of transferring India to the British

  37. What is the British East India Company?

  38. In the 16th C, experienced 36 years of civil war because the Huguenots Were persecuted by the ultra-Catholic monarchs

  39. What is France? Type Subject 4 $100 Question Here

  40. The belief that the monarch receives Power directly from God

  41. What is divine right Of kings?

  42. Refers to the political system in which Ultimate authority rests With the monarch.

  43. What is absolutism?

  44. He said that the purpose of government Was to ensure the protection of natural rights; Government was a social contract; when the Government failed to protect rights, the people had the right to revolt.

  45. Who is John Locke?

  46. Leader of the Roundheads who Took the throne from Charles I in the English Civil War

  47. What is Oliver Cromwell?

  48. The economic theory which encourages Countries to build up a large supply of Gold and silver by exporting more Goods than they import

  49. What is mercantilism?

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