Discovering America

A series of events that led to the birth of modern science; it lasted from about 1540 to 1700

• Scientific Revolution

• New World

• Industrial Revolution

• Scientific Method

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Which of the following was a lasting effect of the Scientific Revolution?

• Using experiments to test religious beliefs

• Relying on religion to explain the natural world

• Using logic to test new scientific equipment

• Relying on the scientific method to test an idea

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

the Western Hemisphere, made up of North and South America

• Scientific Revolution

• New World

• Circumnavigate

• Christopher Columbus

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

To go all the way around

• Scientific Revolution

• New World

• Rotate

• Circumnavigate

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CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

an Italian explorer who led several transatlantic voyages for Spain. He landed in the New World in 1492

• Vasco De Gama

• Vasco De Nunez

• Christopher Columbus

• Ponce De Leon

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

Why did European leaders start sending explorers on voyages of discovery?

• To establish new colonies

• To find new lands to settle

• To find an all-water route to Asia

• To establish trading posts in Africa

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CCSS.RI.5.9

CCSS.RI.6.2

CCSS.RI.7.2

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.6.2

How did the Spanish defeat powerful empires in the Americas?

• By using slaves

• With a larger army

• With stronger ships

• By using better weapons

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

The movement of people, animals, plants, diseases, and ideas between Europe and the Americas in the 1400s and 1500s

• Columbian Exchange

• Christopher Columbus

• Asia Trade Route

• Spanish Silver Mines

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5

Which was a part of the Columbian Exchange?

• Explorers found new cures for diseases

• Europeans brought horses to the Americas

• Europeans converted to Native American religions

• 1. Explorers brought Aztec technology back to Europe

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CCSS.RL.7.9

CCSS.RL.8.9

The waterway that separates Alaska and Russia. Thousands of years ago, the continents of Russia and Asia were connected at this point by a land bridge

• Circumnavigate

• Scientific Revolution

• Nomadic

• Bering Strait

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CCSS.RI.4.5

CCSS.RI.5.5

CCSS.RI.6.5

CCSS.RI.7.5

CCSS.RI.8.5