Unit 5 Age of Exploration

What did Kepler add to Copernicus’ heliocentric theory?  

• That Jupiter had four moons
• That the planets revolved around the earth 
• That the sun was the biggest star
• That the planets move in eliptical (oval shaped) orbits around the sun

Which scientist developed laws of motion?  

• Ptolemy
• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Newton

The Incas built roads through the _________________________ and occupied Peru at the time the Spanish arrived in the 1500s. 

• Andes Mountains
• Appalachian Mountains 
• Rocky Mountains
• Stone Mountain

Aztec capital city built on a swampy island

• Tenochtitlan
• Cuzco
• Machu Picchu
• Pacal

A method of growing crops on the sides of mountains.

• ziggurat
• terrace farming
• codex
• conquistador

type of agriculture used by Mayans to deal with their heavily forested environment

• slash and burn

• dry farming

• tenant farming

• praying to the God of forest

agricultural innovation used by the Aztecs to grow crops in Lake Texcoco

• Slash and burn

• chinampas

• terrace farming

• draft animals

What is the Columbian Exchange?

• Exchange of ideas between America and Europe

• Exchange of different plants, animals, diseases between the New and Old World.

• Exchange of disease between colonists and Native Americans.

• Exchange of money between the Wergild and Ordeal

Fast ship that could sail with & against the wind, large cargo area, and shallow hull that could navigate shallow water

• navigation ship
• caravel
• astrolabe
• compass

Which of the following helped explorers determine latitude from the position of the sun, moon, and stars?

• compass
• caravel
• astrolabe