1. Unit 8: The Early Modern World
Short Answer
Unit 8: The Early Modern World

2. What were four major impacts that the Age of Exploration had on the world?
Trade
The Columbian Exchange
Plants, animals, ideas, and disease
Impacts
The Triangle Trade
What was it?
Who did it impact

3. What were four major impacts that the Age of Exploration had on the world?
Technology
Steel, guns, wheel uses
Animals as technology
Economy
Industries: mining, textiles, and plantations
Slavery
Culture
Language
Religion
Racism

4. What was the Enlightenment
What was the Enlightenment? Name and explain the key elements that it was based upon
The Enlightenment’s Roots (4 elements)
Greek and Roman ideas
Logic could discover new truths; natural law governed how the world operated
Christianity
Faith and reason together could explain the world
Scientific Revolution
Scientific laws, not religion, governed the natural world
Renaissance and Reformation
Humanists emphasized human achievement and said that people could improve their world

5. What was the Enlightenment
What was the Enlightenment? Name and explain the key elements that it was based upon.
The Ideas of the Enlightenment (page 476)
The ability to reason is what makes humans unique
Reason can be used to solve problems and improve lives
Reason can free people from ignorance, superstition, and unfair government
The natural world is governed by laws that can be discovered though reason
Like the natural world, human behavior is governed by natural laws
Government should reflect natural laws and encourage education and debate

6. The English Bill of Rights
Consider the Declaration of the Independence and the United States’ system of government. There were several powerful influences that were expressed in the document including: enlightened thinkers, the Magna Carta, and the English Bill of Rights. Explain each of their impacts on the United States of America.
Magna Carta
Protected from an oppressive leader through Parliament
Enumerated several protections for citizens including: freedom from unlawful searches and seizures, a right to a speedy trial, a right to trial by jury, and protection from loss of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.
The English Bill of Rights
Strictly enforced the principles of the Magna Carta
Power to of Parliament pass laws and taxes, royals ruled according to Parliamentary laws
Outlawed cruel and unusual punishment
Guaranteed free speech (for members of Parliament), right keep arms

7. Consider the Declaration of the Independence and the United States’ system of government. There were several powerful influences that were expressed in the document including: enlightened thinkers, the Magna Carta, and the English Bill of Rights. Explain each of their impacts on the United States of America.
Enlightened Thinkers
John Locke
Limited powers of government
Natural rights of life, liberty, and property
Charles Louis Montesquieu
Powers of government should be divided into separate branches
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Social contract: people give the government to enforce laws in their best interest
Popular sovereignty