Deck 13: Worlds Old and New

Question 1

Portuguese ships reached India in

A) 1312.
B) 1421.
C) 1498.
D) 1600.

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Vasco da Gama was the first explorer to circumnavigate the world.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Cortes' army of ______________ conquered Mexico.

Answer 3

conquistadores

Question 4

Pizarro conquered

A) the Aztecs.
B) the Toltecs.
C) the Maya.
D) the Inca.

Question 5

On Hispaniola epidemics wiped out 99.9% of the population.

Question 6

Which of the following came to Europe from the New World via the Columbian Exchange?

A) horses
B) coffee
C) wheat
D) tomatoes

Question 7

Around 1510 ________began to develop a different model of the universe.

Question 8

In the geocentric model the stars orbit around the_____________.

Question 9

What discovery did Galileo report in the Starry Messenger (1610)?

A) the existence of black holes
B) the moons of Jupiter
C) the rings of Saturn
D) Earth's orbit

Question 10

In what year did the church first condemn the heliocentric model of the universe?

A) 1616
B) 1633
C) 1598
D) 1689

Question 11

___________ is the nature of knowledge itself.

Question 12

Executions for heresy increased greatly under the inquisition.

Question 13

Crypto-Jews were Jews who _______.

A) held their faith secretly.
B) lapsed Jews.
C) Jews from Lithuania.
D) atheists..

Question 14

Boyle's law was concerned with _______.

A) blood circulation.
B) movement of the planets.
C) pressure of gas.
D) dissection of bodies.

Question 15

From the 7th to the 11th century the Islamic world had excelled in science.

Question 16

Francis Bacon identified four problems or________ with the human mind.

Question 17

Who said "cogito ergo sum" ("I think, therefore I am")?

A) Galileo
B) Francis Bacon
C) Copernicus
D) Descartes

Question 18

Since Descartes, Western science begins with the assumption that everything operates according to a set of __________.

Question 19

Which theory describes the motion of everything in the universe?

A) heliocentrism
B) universal gravitation
C) relativity
D) Boyle's law