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- 4. As explorers looked for sea routes to the Spice Islands, they made new discoveries that prompted further _______________.
- 6. Religious reformers influenced this king of England to break with the church, who then influenced the majority of the English to convert to ____________________.
- 7. This Italian astronomer contradicted Ptolemy and built on the scientific foundations of Copernicus. He built the first telescope, discovered mountains on the moon and sun spots among many other things. When threatened with death before the Inquisition in 1633, he renounced his beliefs, even though he knew the Earth moved.
- 8. This Polish astronomer published his book, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in which he claimed the universe is heliocentric, or sun-centered and the Earth is merely one of several planets revolving around the sun.
- 9. Europeans built strategic outposts to control the _______ trade and established colonies; with their wealth and power they began to influence or even take over local governments which led to establishing empires in South and Southeast Asia.
- 10. Martin Luther and John Calvin were leaders of the
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- 1. As new astronomical discoveries challenged accepted views of the universe, scientists in all fields began to rely on ________________ than accepted wisdom.
- 2. People began to question specific practices of the Church and the role and practice of religion in general, leading to spread of __________________.
- 3. In the 1500s and 1600s the Scientific Revolution changed the way Europeans looked at the world; people began to make conclusions based on __________________ and _______________, instead of merely accepting traditional ideas.
- 5. When scientists use the scientific method, they base their findings on observation and experimentation.