| A | B |
|---|
| Locke | natural rights: life, liberty, property |
| Hobbes | ppl give up all rights to a monarch |
| Diderot | created first encyclopedia |
| Voltaire | freedom of speech |
| Montesquieu | 3 branches, "checks and balances" |
| heliocentric | idea that everything revolves around the sun |
| geocentric | idea that everything revolves around the earth |
| natural rights | life, liberty, and property |
| Mexico | home of the Aztecs |
| Peru | country in which Pizarro invaded |
| Herman Cortes | took over Mexico |
| reason that England sailed | colonies |
| reason that France sailed | furs |
| reason that Spain sailed | gold and silver |
| idea that Voltaire came up with | freedom of speech |
| Aztecs | civilization from Mexico |
| Inca | civilization from Peru |
| Middle Passage | term used to describe the transportation of slaves from Africa to Americas, Carribean, and Brazil |
| Champlain | discovered Quebec/Canadian area |
| line of demarcation | drawn to divide land between Spain and Portugal |
| Treaty of Tordesillas | redrew the line of demarcation between Spain and Portugal |
| mercantilism | when colonies provide materials and goods for the mother country |
| disease | factor most responsible for the dramatic decline in the Native American population |
| Vasco da Gama | his voyage allowed goods to be purchased directly from India |
| Spanish explorers | they changed the culture of indigenous people (Indians) by bringing devastating diseases from Europe |
| jewels and metals | these two items provided a motive for European powers to colonize Africa |
| Age of Exploration | these innovations of the astrolabe and caravel helped during this age. |
| trade routes to Asia | What Columbus hoped to find during his voyages |
| smallpox | disease that wiped out much of the Native American population |
| horse | important animal brought to the New World |
| llamas | animals used prior to the introduction of the horse |
| rice | important crop introduced to the New World as a result of the Columbian Exchange |
| tobacco | important crop introduced to the Old World via Columbian Exchange |
| abundance of food | helped to fuel Europeans' desire to move to the New World |
| Jamestown | first established English colony in the New World |
| Montezuma | leader of the Aztecs |
| Tenochtitlan | capital of Mexico |
| Francis Bacon | assumptions should be tested many times before they are accepted moved people away from faith to that of observable truths |
| printing press | made it easier to spread ideas during the Renaissance. |
| scientific method | combination of experiment and observation |
