Exploration and Scientific Revolution Crossword
Across
- 2. The six step process used in Science that starts with an observation and ends with a conclusion.
- 4. In the late 1700's, Edward Jenner introduced a vaccine to prevent this.
- 5. This ancient civilization used math that included the concept of zero, a 365-day calendar and a writing system.
- 10. This was the method of record keeping the Incas used. It was a collection of knotted strings.
- 11. These are two types of calendars that the Aztecs, Incas and Mayas used.
- 14. Modern scientific methods are based on the ideas of these two guys. (last names only)
- 15. This explorer of the new world was able to conquer the Aztecs because of his advanced weapons and diseases his people brought over unknowingly.
Down
- 1. These two countries began sea voyages of exploration during the 15th century.
- 3. Britain, France, Spain and Portugal beginning to claim land to relieve population pressure and create new markets.
- 6. The first person given credit for circumnavigating the world.
- 7. The three G's that was described as motivation for European explorers to find a way to sail to Asia.
- 8. This crop was sent from the Americas to Europe and was important in Ireland and China.
- 9. These two items were brought to the Americas by Europeans through the Columbian Exchange.
- 12. This scientist helped bring the scientific breakthroughs of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo together under a single theory of motion
- 13. Most of the slave forts were located here. Also where the majority of slaves were taken to the Americas from.