What were the names of the three ships used by Christopher Columbus to navigate the Atlantic Ocean in search of a new route to Asia on August 1492?

What was the name given to the Spanish soldiers/explorers, who made sure Spain conquered most of America in the 100 years after Columbus arrived for the first time to the new land?

He was the Spanish conquistador, responsable for the conquest and destruction of Tenochtitlan in the year 1521.

He was responsable of exterminating the Incas in South America and established a wealthy colony that was dedicated to minning silver.

The Spanish conquest of Native American peoples, such as the Aztecs and the Incas in the 1500s, was thanks to this new element that the Europeans brought along with them, something these peoples were not prepared for. What was that foreign element?

It is a building or group of buildings used as a base by Catholic priests during the conquest of America. They spread throughout the Spanish colonies. and were used to spread Christianity to the Native Americans.

It was a grant by the Spanish monarch. It gave the person incharge the right to control a certain number of natives for labor purposes.

What was the title or name, given to the person incharge of administrating an Encomienda and caring/protecting the Natives under his watch?

Which was the first British settlement esbalished in North America on May 14, 1607?

Why was the colony of Jamestown originally established for?

In 1620 a second british settlement was built. What was its name?

Just like Jamestown, the Plymouth colony was estbalished for very specific reasons. What were does reasons?

Prior, or before, the 1500s what religion dominated in Western Europe?

It's a branch of Christianity separated from the authority and practices of the Catholic Church that emerged during the 1500s because of accusations of curroption within the Catholic Church leaders. This is known as?

He was a German monk who was against many of the practices and traditiond of the Church such as the authority of the Pope, restrictions to read and interpret the Bible and specially the selling of indulgences to earn forgiveness of ones sins. He wrote a pamphlet with 95 reasons why the Church should reform itself and his folowers began a new church based on his teachings.

He was the king of England, who at first was a fierce defender of the Catholic Church, but after he asked for a divorce and was refused by the Pope, he cut all ties with the Church and named himself hed of the English church, known as the Anglicans.

Aa a response to the Protestant movement, or Protestant Reformation, the Catholic Church made a series of changes. With this, they hoped to strengthen and improve the Church. It all began with the Council of Trent (1545 to 1563).

In addition to the reforms it made, the Catholic Church brought back a court ruled by the Church that could try people who were accused of being heretics. Heretics are people who do not follow Catholic Church teachings. Anyone found guilty of heresy was severely punished including protestants.

At the beginning of the 1500s in Europe, scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers introduced ideas and made discoveries that changed the way people thought about the world, based on obsrevation, experimentation and reasoning.

The thinkers of the Scientific Revolution challenged the commonly held ideas of the time. They believed everything in the world could be proven through argument, mathematical calculation and observation.

He was a Polish astronomer and mathematician, that in 1543, After careful observation of the night sky and mathematical calculation, proposed a new theory that proved that Earth and other planets revolved around the sun and not the other way around as Church teachings said, this is known as the Heliocentric Model of the universe.

Italian scientist that in the 1600s proved Copernicus theory to be correct by using and improved version of the telescope made by him.

English mathematician, astronomer and physicist. He is mostly known for discovering the force of gravity. In 1686, he published his book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Matematica.

Was and intellectual movement that took place in Europe in the 1600s and 1700s. Philosophers tried to use reason, not religion, to understand the world. Enlightenment philosophers focused on people and their ability to reason and think, their relationship with society and government

The thinkers of the Enlightenment based their ideas around two main concepts:

1) belief that there is an explanation, or reason for everything.

2) the moral worth of each individual.

What are the names of these two concepts?

He was a British philosopher. His most popular political work was called Two Treaties on Government, He wrote that people are born free and are bestowed to three basic rights life, liberty and property.

He was one of the most influential French philosophes. He was known for using humor to make his political views. He often criticized the monarchy and was in favor of religious tolerance and free speech.

Important French philosophe. He wrote a lot about politics. In his book The Spirit of the Law, he wrote about the creation of a fair government that would protect people’s rights. He's mostly known for this division of powers (Executive, Legislative and Judicial).

The Enlightenment thinkers targeted this system of government, bacause its essence wass that the ruling power (monarch) was not subject to challenge or check by any other institution, be it judicial, legislative, religious, economic, or electoral.

Prior and during the Age of Enlightenment, monarchs based their power on the belief that their right to rule came from God. This belief was also backed up by the Catholic Church.

Most European rulers opposed the ideas of the Enlightenment, because they put their authority at risk, but some monarchs, adopted some of these ideas to keep and protect their power.

On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress, the government established by the Thirteen Colonies, wrote and ratified the Declaration of Independence from the British Crown, and declared them selves the Thirteen United States. All out war broke out and  culminated in 1783 with the surrendering of the British army at Yorktown, Virginia. This was thanks to the Americans securing help from the French, the longtime rivals of the British. What event in History am I describing?

In 1789, inspired by the ideas of the Enlightenment and by the success of the American War of Independence from the British Crown, the French peasants and bourgeois (middle class) began a revolt against the rule of King Louis XVI.

Which of the following were the four reasons why the French population began a revolution against their government in the late 1700s?

French society was divided in three social classes known as Estates. Select from the option below which were those Estates, or social groups of France.

Who was the Fench King that was governing the country during the events of the French Revolution?

To deal with the economic problems of France, Louis XVI called a meeting of delegates on May 5, 1789. Delegates of all three social classes met to express their complaints and suggest solutions (First Time meeting in 175 years). What was the name of this meeting of delegates from all three Estates of the French society?

After being locked out of the chamber were the Estates-General was taking place, members of the third Estate, assembled in a nearby tennis court were they pledged, or promissed, not to leave until they would be recognized as the National Assembly by the King and they had a new constitution for France. This pledge was known as?