Chapter 16 World history

The dutch were a peaceful people who accepted all types of teachings and religions.

A scientist who confirmed the Earth was not the center of the Universe and devloped a series of laws about physics

Era between 1400s and 1750 when Europeans made major changes to their economy such as currency do to exploration

The ___________ purchased modern day Manhattan from the Native Americans to expand their colonial empire

Sailed around the cape of good hope(southern tip of Africa) and found the route to the indian ocean

___________ invaded the Aztecs and destroyed the city of Tenochtilan

before the age of exploration most maps did not contain the Americas

The great city of Tenochtilan was a ________ city

First Portuguese explorer whose missio was to find gold

Phillip II was a peaceful ruler who accepted all beliefs which helped him build the spanish empire

Found the Americas in 1492 and thought he was off the coast of Asia. Set sail with Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria

__________ used guerrilla warfare on the spanish in the netherlands, won and declared indepence from spain

The ___________ was a huge devlopment in navigation during the 1100s to 1500s

In the 1400s the Spanish and Portuguse developed longer and larger ships that had sails and rudders to move

Countries devloped a ________ on colonies. This only allowed them to buy goods from them in exchange for raw materials

The english used pirates to raid spanish ships for gold

believed that scientific theories should only be devloped through obvervation not through assumptions

the theory that the earth was the center of the universe devloped by Ptolemy

Treaty that divided the new lands between Spain and Portugal

Despite the fact they were defeated the Aztecs had many advantages such as Horses, gold, diseases.

An era of people questioning about the natural world and coming up with new discoveries

Developed a telescope and studied spots on the sun and saw Saturn's rings, the church siad his invention was the devil

Charles the V gave _________ Spain and all of it's possessions because the empire was to large to rule for one man

The first person to present the heliocentric theory

When individual merchants come together into a business organization and owned portions of compaines

First person to get credit for sailing around the world despite the fact he died before making it