Scientific Revolution & Age of Exploration VocabWorld History Honors

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Scientific Revolution

Scientific Method

Geocentric Theory

Heliocentric Theory

• Scientific Revolution: a major change in European thought, starting in the mid-1500s, in which the study of the natural world began to be characterized by careful observation and the questioning of accepted beliefs

• Scientific Method: a logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observation are used to test hypotheses

• Geocentric Theory: the idea that the earth was an immovable object located at the center of the universe.

• Heliocentric Theory: the idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.

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• Treaty of Tordesilla: 1494 agreement between Portugal and Spain that divided their New World land claims.

• Dutch East India Company: a company founded by the Dutch in the early 17th century to establish and direct trade throughout Asia

• colony: lands controlled by another nation• Conquistador: Spanish conqueror• mestizo: mixed Spanish and Native American

population• encomienda: forced Native American labor by the

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• Atlantic Slave Trade: the buying and selling of Africans form work in the Americas.

• Triangle Trade: trade network by which African slaves were captured and traded/sold for goods in Africa, the Americas, and Europe

• Middle Passage: the voyage that brought captured Africans to the Americas

• Columbian Exchange: the global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the Americas.