Scientific Revolution and Exploration

heliocentric

• belief that the Earth was the center of the universe, taught by the church

• belief that the sun was the center of the universe

• belief that the moon was the center of the universe

• belief that the god Helios created Earth

geocentric

• belief that the Earth is the center of the universe, taught by the church

• belief that the sun is the center of the universe

• belief that the moon is the center of the universe

• belief that the god Gia created the Earth

Columbian Exchange

• Exchange of coffee between Europe and America

• the exchange of ideas between explorers like Columbus

• Exchange of slaves between the Europeans and Africans for the Americas

• Exchange of goods and ideas between the Old World (Europe) and the New World (Americas)

Mercantilism

• Exchange of goods and ideas between the Old World and the New World

• belief that a country's wealth was based on gold and silver and that a country needed to export more than it imported

• being a merchant and selling goods

• belief that the Church is wrong

encomiendas

• right to demand labor or tribute from Native Americans in a particular area

• people born in Spain

• representatives who ruled the colonies

• American born Spanish settlers

Dias

• Spanish explorer who circumnavigated the world

• Portuguese explorer who went around the Cape of Good Hope to India

• Portuguese explorer who explored the tip of Africa (Cape of Good Hope)

• Spanish explorer who discovered a new continent

De Gama

• Portuguese explorer who sailed around the Cape of Good Hope to India

• Spanish explorer who circumnavigated the world

• Spanish explorer who discovered a new continent

• Portuguese explorer who explored the tip of Africa

Copernicus

• known for his work with gravity

• invented the telescope

• came up with the heliocentric theory

• discovered that planets moved in elliptical orbits

Treaty of Tordesillas

• agreement between Spain and Portugal that divided the non-European world into two zones with Spain getting the lands west including the Americas

• agreement between England and Portugal that divided the non-European world into two zones with Portugal getting the lands west including the Americas

• agreement between England and Spain that divided the non-European world into two zones with England getting the lands west including the Americas

• agreement between the Church and England that divided the non-European world into two zones with the church getting the lands west including the Americas

Middle Passage

• name of dangerous portion of slave trade between Europe and Africa

• name of dangerous portion of slave trade between Africa and Americas

• name of dangerous portion of slave trade between Americas and Europe

• route to Asia that Columbus discovered by going West