Friday, September 28, 2007

Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

During the night of August 4 1789, noblemen made grand speeches and they was declaring their love of liberty and equality. Noblemens joined other memebers of the National Assembly in sweeping away the fuedal privileges of the First Estate and the Second Estate.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

The French Revolution: Social Causes

In the 1700's, France was considered the most smart or advanced country of Europe. It was the center ofthe Enlightment and it had a large population and a prosperous foreighn trade. France was always busy, caused by high prices, high taxes, and disturbing questions raised by the Enlightenment ideas od Rousseau and Voltaire.
There was about 98 percentage of the people that belonged to the Third Estate. The three groups that made up this estate differed greatly in their economic conditions. The first group were merchants and artisans. they were well learned and beleived strongly in the Enlightenment ideals of liberty and equality. Many felt that their wealth entitled them to a greater degree of social status and political power. So the First Estate made up of clergy of Roman Catholic Church. The Second Estate was made up of rich nobles that held the highest offices in government. They Disagreed about Enlightenment ideas. The Third Estate was an urban lower class, and peasant farmers. They did have no powers to influence government but they embraced Enlightenment ideas.

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo

Galileo and the Star gazer was presented by the Greathall Productions. There were alot of scientific observers n they were suprised to find that their answer or conclusions did not always match up the accepted truths. These scientist were discussing about this by the year of 1550 through the year of 1700. Scientific Revolution did not happen all at the same time, they didnt even have a date they really started doing this experiment. There was a scientific revolution of sorts in the high Middle Ages that in many ways rivalled the later scientific revolution in all there changes but all the cultural components werenot in place.

Thursday, September 6, 2007

Evolution VS Creation

Evolution VS Creation

There are different kinds of thoery such as Darwin's Theory of Evolution. Many people think that human raised started of as animals, such as the monkey. People say that thier our ancestors then we were developed as people because our brains developed more better.