Chapter 13 Quiz

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. The Scientific Revolution occurred roughly between _______ and _______.

1300 correct incorrect

1500 correct incorrect

1640 correct incorrect

1750 correct incorrect

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. The first European fleet to make landfall in India was under the command of _______.

Christopher Columbus correct incorrect

Ferdinand Magellan correct incorrect

John Cabot correct incorrect

Vasco da Gama correct incorrect

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. Christopher Columbus was _______.

Italian correct incorrect

Spanish correct incorrect

English correct incorrect

Portuguese correct incorrect

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. The Treaty of Tordesillas split the New World between _______ and _______.

France correct incorrect

Spain correct incorrect

Portugal correct incorrect

England correct incorrect

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. Which of the following traveled from New World to Old during the Columbian Exchange? Select all that apply.

Tomatoes correct incorrect

Horses correct incorrect

Smallpox correct incorrect

Potatoes correct incorrect

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. Europeans were able to conquer the Americans fairly easily thanks to smallpox, which eradicated up to _______ percent of many Native American societies.

90 correct incorrect

50 correct incorrect

30 correct incorrect

12 correct incorrect

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. Nicolaus Copernicus developed the _______ model of the solar system.

Your response

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. The Catholic Church condemned the heliocentric model of the universe after _______ published his work.

Copernicus correct incorrect

Kepler correct incorrect

Tycho Brahe correct incorrect

Galileo correct incorrect

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. Galileo used an early telescope to discover _______.

Mars correct incorrect

The moons of Jupiter correct incorrect

Planets orbiting other stars correct incorrect

The man in the moon correct incorrect

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. Epistemology is the study of the nature of _______.

God correct incorrect

The universe correct incorrect

knowledge correct incorrect

Writing correct incorrect

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. Did the number of people killed for heresy in Europe decline or increase after the medieval inquisition was founded?

Your response

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. The Protestant doctrine of cuius regio eius religio means that _________ determines an individual's religion.

Conscience correct incorrect

Free will correct incorrect

The religion of his ruler correct incorrect

The will of the majority correct incorrect

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. _______ identified the circulatory system in the human body.

Galileo Galilei correct incorrect

William Harvey correct incorrect

Robert Boyle correct incorrect

Isaac Newton correct incorrect

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. The inventor of Boyle's law was ________.

Your response

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. Dissection was treated as a punishment reserved for _______ in early modern Europe.

Criminals correct incorrect

Heretics correct incorrect

Foreigners correct incorrect

Witches correct incorrect

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. Which form of Islam did Ibn Taymiyya subscribe to?

Your response

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. Ibn Taymiyya's Islamic fundamentalism was a reaction to _______.

The rise of a Shi'a Persian state correct incorrect

The Ottomans' fascination with Sufism correct incorrect

The successes of Orthodox Christianity in converting Muslims correct incorrect

The destruction of the Mongols correct incorrect

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. The Scientific Revolution overturned the ideas of _______ which had been fundamental to Islamic scientific thought.

The Romans correct incorrect

The Greeks correct incorrect

The Renaissance correct incorrect

The Ottomans correct incorrect

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. The two halves of the scientific method are _______ and _______.

Inductive reasoning correct incorrect

Deductive reasoning correct incorrect

Experimentation correct incorrect

Calculations correct incorrect

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. Rene Descartes invented which form of mathematics?

Analytical geometry correct incorrect

Calculus correct incorrect

Algebra correct incorrect

Fluid dynamics correct incorrect

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. Isaac Newton's fundamental scientific discovery is his theory of _______.

Heliocentrism correct incorrect

Universal gravitation correct incorrect

Nuclear physics correct incorrect

Relativity correct incorrect

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. The Scientific Revolution shifted the popular conception of the universe to seeing it as _______.

A fascinating mechanism correct incorrect

A divine mystery correct incorrect

Uncontrollable chaos correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect

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Based on Map 13.3, what part of the New World would you say Portugal colonized?

The Caribbean correct incorrect

Peru correct incorrect

Brazil correct incorrect

Canada correct incorrect

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What impression do you think this image is trying to convey of the New World?

That it's savage and terrifying. correct incorrect

That it's friendly and welcoming. correct incorrect

That it's incredibly wealthy. correct incorrect

That it's a fantastical place correct incorrect

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Based on these two images, the practice of dissection has gone from something done seriously to _______.

Absolutely forbidden correct incorrect

Seen as something the dissected "deserved" as punishment correct incorrect

A party correct incorrect

All of the above correct incorrect