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| Scientific Revolution | a series of events that led to the birth of modern science;it lasted from about 1540-to 1700 |
| theories | an explanation a scientist develops based on facts |
| Ptolemy | a thinker that wrote about astronomy,geography,and logic |
| Nicholas Copernicus | he inspired fresh thinking about science |
| Johannes Kepler | German astronomer tried to map the orbits of the planets |
| Gallileo Galilei | Italian scientist,the first person to study the sky with a telescope |
| Sir Issac Newton | 1642-1727 was one of the greatest scientist who ever lived |
| scientific method | a step-by-step method for performing experiments and other scientific research |
| Henry the Navigator | a Prince was responsible for much of Portugal's success on the seas |
| Vasco da Gama | In 1498 sailed around Africa and landed on the west coast of India |
| Christopher Columbus | An Italian sailor.In August 1492 set sail across the Atlantic |
| Ferdinand Magellan | led a voyage around South America's southern tip |
| circumnavigate | to go all the way around |
| Sir Francis Drake | began stealing treasure from Spanish transport ships |
| Spanish Armada | a large fleet of Spanish ships that was defeated by England in 1588 |
| plantations | a large farm |
| mercantilism | a system in which a government controls all economic activity in a country and its colonies to make the government stronger and richer |
| market economy | an economic system in which individuals decide what goods and services they will buy |
