| A | B |
| Reasons for exploration | Demand for gold, spread of Christianity, competition between countries |
| Christopher Columbus | sailed for Spain, discovered the Americas |
| Prince Henry the Navigator | set up a school for navigation |
| Francis Drake | raided Spanish ships for gold |
| Triangle Trade | exchange of goods between America, Europe, and Africa |
| Columbian Exchange | exchange of goods between America, Europe and Africa |
| Ottoman Empire | capital is Istanbul, located in Asia Minor, religion is Islam |
| Mughal Empire | located in North India, Taj Mahal is there |
| Shogun | military leader of Japan |
| Mercantilism | practice of European countries establishing colonies |
| Commercial Revolution | new money, new banking, new kind of mercantilism |
| Isaac Newton | scientist who discovered gravity |
| Galilieo Galilei | scientist who improved the telescope and found moons on Jupiter |
| Johannes Kepler | scientist who said univerese is heliocentric, planetes move in oval shapes |
| William Harvey | scientist who discovered the circulation of blood |
| Absolutism | monarchs centralize power in a nation |
| Versailles | French palace built bu Louis XIV |
| Glorious Revolution | William and Mary become limited monarchs |
| Cortes | conquiatador who conquered the Aztecs |
| Pizarro | conquistador who wonquered the Incas |
| Colony | a settlement set up by a European country for trade |
| Christianty | the religion which explorers wanted to spread to other nations |
| Limited monarchy | power of the monarch is limited by a constitution |
| Louis XIV | absolute monarch of France who built the palace of Versailles |
| Smallpox | disease brought to the Americas which killed 90% of the population |
| Ferdinand Magellan | first person to circumnavigate the world |
| Islam | religion Mughals spread to India |
| Isolationism | Japan's attempt to limit foreign influences |