Worlds Old and New 1450-1700

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. The Scientific Revolution occurred roughly between _______ and _______.

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. The first European fleet to make landfall in India was under the command of _______.

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. Christopher Columbus was _______.

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. The Treaty of Tordesillas split the New World between _______ and _______.

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. Which of the following traveled from New World to Old during the Columbian Exchange? Select all that apply.

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. Europeans were able to conquer the Americans fairly easily thanks to smallpox, which eradicated up to _______ percent of many Native American societies.

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. Nicolaus Copernicus developed the _______ model of the solar system.

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. The Catholic Church condemned the heliocentric model of the universe after _______ published his work.

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. Galileo used an early telescope to discover _______.

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. Epistemology is the study of the nature of _______.

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. Did the number of people killed for heresy in Europe decline or increase after the medieval inquisition was founded?

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. The Protestant doctrine of cuius regio eius religio means that _________ determines an individual's religion.

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. _______ identified the circulatory system in the human body.

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. The inventor of Boyle's law was ________.

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. Dissection was treated as a punishment reserved for _______ in early modern Europe.

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. Which form of Islam did Ibn Taymiyya subscribe to?

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. Ibn Taymiyya's Islamic fundamentalism was a reaction to _______.

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. The Scientific Revolution overturned the ideas of _______ which had been fundamental to Islamic scientific thought.

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. The two halves of the scientific method are _______ and _______.

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. Rene Descartes invented which form of mathematics?

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. Isaac Newton's fundamental scientific discovery is his theory of _______.

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. The Scientific Revolution shifted the popular conception of the universe to seeing it as _______.

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Based on Map 13.3, what part of the New World would you say Portugal colonized?

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What impression do you think this image is trying to convey of the New World?

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Based on these two images, the practice of dissection has gone from something done seriously to _______.

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