Ch. 20 Review!

According to Copernicus, the sun  

• Revolved around the earth
• Was the center of the Universe
• Was the biggest star
•  Had many moons

 _____________________ was an Italian astronomer who developed the telescope, which then confirmed Copernicus’ Heliocentric Theory 

• a. Isaac Newton
• b. Galileo Galilei 
• c. Adam Smith
• d. Dennis Diderot

What was Isaac Newton’s biggest contribution to the scientific revolution?

• The Universal Law of Gravity
• Heliocentric Model

What did Kepler add to Copernicus’ heliocentric theory?  

• That Jupiter had four moons
• That the planets revolved around the earth 
• That the sun was the biggest star
• That the planets move in eliptical (oval shaped) orbits around the sun

The goal of Columbus's first voyage was to:

• Go around Africa to Asia
• Find the New World
• Conquer the Aztec Empire
• Get to Asia by sailing West across the Atlantic

The first explorer to sail around Africa to Asia was:

• Vasco da Gama
• Christopher Columbus
• Ferdinand Magellan
• Henry Hudson

This brought animals, plants, people, and ideas from the Old World (Europe) to the New World (Americas)

• Columbian Exchange

• Trade Federation

• Silk Road

• Google

Prince Henry the Navigator did all of the following to encourage exploration except

• build an observatory for sailors.

• go on voyages to Asia and Africa.

• open a navigation school for sailors.

• pay people to sail on voyages.

In the Triangular Trade, Europe brought _______ to Africa, trading for ________

• raw materials/finished goods

• finished goods/raw materials

• slaves/finished goods

• finished goods/slaves

What does it mean to circumnavigate the globe?

• to sail from one continent to another

• to sail all the way around the world

• to sail from one hemisphere to another

• to sail to an unexplored part of the world