Who is Nicolas Copernicus?
A baker for the King that was executed for his belief in god
A German friar that staged a revolt against the Catholic church
A renaissance mathematician that made the universe with the sun as its center instead of the Earth
an ambassador to the church that collected taxes to 'give to God'
Who discovered Canada?
Vasco da Gama
Henry Hudson
Cartier
Balboa
What did the explorers find in Canada?
penguins
Fish
Oxen
Bison
Henry Hudson discovered modern day New York.
Hudson mutinied his crew
Cartier made fancy jewlery
Describe the Scientific Method
ask a question hypothesis present
ask a question observe make a hypothesis test present
ask a question think of the answer test show theorize
ask a question observe make a hypothesis test the hypothesis theorize/start over
What sign did the Aztec believe that the gods would give to signify there new homeland?
An owl carrying a rat
an eagle with a snake in its mouth on a cactus
a bear holding a dead fish on a lake
In which modern country do the Aztec live?
Mexico
Belize
Guatemala
Peru
Chile
Uraguay
Spain
What modern day country do the Inca live in?
America
Canada
Iceland
What modern day country did the Inca live in?
China
Argentina
What did Isaac Newton study or discover?
gravity
speed of sound
built the first telescpe
calculus
color spectrum with prisms
speed of light
how things could fly and humans could not
created the oven
made the first mattress
created glass
What does circumnavigate mean?
to travel around the whole thing of a piece of land
a navigator of circles
a way of traveling across the ocean
What was the Peace of Augsburg?
an agreement that let each German ruler decide whether his Kingdom would be Lutheran or cTholic
an agreement that forced townspeople to be Catholic
a list of names of the dead after the German war
an agreement that turned all of Germany Lutheran
Who did Cortez takeover?
Maya
Inca
Aztec
Indians
The Spanish
what is a quipu?
an ostrich
a string that holds a temple together
hieroglyphs on temple walls
knotted, colored string record keeper
a monk that records scripture for the german rulers