Scientific Revolution & Age of Exploration Vocab World History Honors

WordDefinitionVisual 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 17 th 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 Spanish

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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.