Age of Exploration, Sci Rev, and Enlightenment

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Across
  1. 7. A trade route in which manufactured goods were taken to Africa in exchange for slaves, slaves were then taken to the Americas to trade for raw goods, and finally those materials were taken back to Europe to be manufactured into more goods.
  2. 9. Defined the universal law of gravitation explaining why objects in space and on Earth move
  3. 12. Came up with the heliocentric universe where the planets revolved around the sun
  4. 13. Sailed west to find a shorter route to Asia than around Africa and accidentally found the American continent
  5. 15. Belief that reason is the main or chief source of knowledge
  6. 17. Women's Rights activist that argued enlightenment ideas of freedom and equality should apply to women
  7. 19. From 1500-1800 European nations explored to find and control new lands and precious natural resources.
  8. 21. a systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence
  9. 22. Father of rationalism; he established that we know we can exist because we can think about our existence
  10. 23. Said people were born with a blank mind, Tabula Rasa, and were molded by their experiences
Down
  1. 1. a period when philosophers believed that they could apply the scientific method and use reason to explain human nature logically and help society
  2. 2. A closed trade system to benefit the Mother Country forced colonies to sell their raw materials and buy manufactured goods only to and from the Mother Country.
  3. 3. Conquerors of the Americas.
  4. 4. making general conclusions from particular observations
  5. 5. Ptolemaic Theory of the earth being the center of the universe
  6. 6. Wrote about the social contract; believed society came together to be governed by the general will of the people which was freedom
  7. 8. Used the telescope to find planets were made of material substance, like the Earth
  8. 10. Someone who studies wisdom; the love to study
  9. 11. Showed orbits of planets were elliptical confirming the heliocentric universe with his laws of planetary motion
  10. 14. A large movement of new species of plants and animals between Europe and the Americas. Ideas and people moved as well.
  11. 16. Copernican Theory of the sun being the center of the universe
  12. 18. Developed the scientific method and pushed people to use inductive reasoning instead of relying on ancient ideas
  13. 20. Spanish explorer who found the western route to Asia and is known for circumnavigating the globe.