Damian's Global Blog

Christopher Colombus and Cortez

2008-05-06T11:48:00.000-07:00

Around the time of the late fifteen hundreds and sixteen hundreds, there were certain individuals that would change the lives of almost everyone around the world. This all started with the want to go to India and make a trade route. This was after Marco Polo and his discovery of China and the countries near it. It was originally easy for the European countries and then the rising of the Ottoman empire. This made importing goods a problem, because they were fined heavy taxes because the ottomans owned the land that they had to cross in order to get the goods and get them to their destination. The Europeans always thought that the world was flat, so the Spanish figured that if the world was flat, that if they kept sailing West, that they would reach India in no time. By the 1840's, they they had plans to try to get to India. Columbus used this idea to take three ships and thousands of men to sail their and come back to what ever country allowed the funding. The king of Portugal decided that it was to costly, and The Kings of england was too late. The Spanish had already hired Columbus to do this. On August 3, 1492, he departed on his way to sail into something no one had been on, in the history of European history. He sailed and sailed, but he had measured the distance to far, this had caused the sailors to go mad. A storm kicked in and destroyed two ships and hundreds of men. Mutiny, which means when the crew of a ship go against the orders of a captain, and usually result in the captain being thrown off the ship, was about to happen, land was spotted. This day was October 12, 1492. When he arrived, he saw the natives, this is why they called them Indians, because they believed that they were actually in India, but they were in the present day Bahamas. However, as they explored the land on his fourth voyage, they discovered Central and South America. This was when conquistadors was introduced. They were pretty much like generals, they controlled big armies and were used to conquer distant lands. Hernando Cortez was assigned to conquer the Aztecs, who were superstitious people who believed that sacrifice was necessary for the gods to favor them. The conquered these lands with no problem because of the fact that he had guns, meanwhile the natives used rocks and spears to fight. The natives had never seen, Horses, guns and these Spanish people, who they thought were originally gods. After conquering and wiping out the natives, with extreme labor and diseases such as small pox . They took the gold and other materials that they could, such as gold, silver and jade. In review, Christopher Columbus sailed to the Bahamas and The conquistadors used their superior soldiers and guns to kill the natives to take the gold and other useful items. They would hold these lands for a long time and they would be the first of their era to reach South America.

Mikhail Gorbachev and the collapse of communism

2008-05-05T05:06:00.000-07:00

What he did was, that he made the former soviet union a better place by improving what the people like about it. An example of this was, how they sold goods. Factory owners made a certain amount of goods, after that, they would stop making until they had to make more. So he urged factory owners to make more, so that the citizens could buy more of those goods. He tried to improve economic restructuring. This was called Perestroika and he had another word which was called Glasnost which means openness. He let the people complain and let them choose what they wanted to complain about, and the government would fix it. He even said to old communist rulers that they wouldn't support them if a battle happened, because they were starting to turn into a democratic society, where they could vote for the people rather then have to just agree with whatever they elected people decide. This trend, however it did not start in the former Soviet Union, it started in Poland where they were trying to fight against the government. They started a union called solidarity and they government discussed about letting them have their way, and then they banned it. The thing that happened next was the fact that people stopped making a lot of goods, people were having shortages of food. They wanted to put military force to make them work, but they knew that it wouldn't help the economy. So they let them have elections, and the people did not want communism, but they were rejected by the Polish people and they choose solidarity members. Hearing of what the Polish had done, the Hungarians decided that they could do it too if they set there minds to it. They opened up a small enterprise so that they could be by their selves. Then they got some radicals into the party and that person made the party collapse, and in this collapse, change was made.

Collapse of Communism

2008-05-02T05:10:00.001-07:00

The collapse of Communism happened because of the fact that places in the Soviet Union started to revolt. Another reason for the collapse is because for the fact that capitalism started to come into the country. This divided the country in half, and those who were encouraged by capitalism, started to look for higher paying jobs. The reason why is because farmers don't get as much money as those in higher paying jobs, this ruined the economy because they had to work harder for more money then they would get if they were in communism. This would cause the people to get angry at communism because of the fact that they ere getting less money in communist society rather then a capitalist society. Statues were torn down as a result, meanwhile, people in both countries knew that there weren't going to be an attack because of missiles, this theory of missiles blowing up was called MAD or mutually assured destruction. People were terrified because of the fact that nuclear war could have resulted from all of this, and the whole world would have been ceaselessly and mercilessly obliterated for no real reason. After the fall of communism, the people in Germany started to take down something that had blocked families and relatives from each other for such a long time. They started to tear down the Berlin wall because of the fact that they wanted top get across to the other side, and they had not been to the other side for about 28 years. This was the official sign that the communist reign of the now Russia was over.

Nelson Mandela and Apartheid

2008-04-18T05:00:00.000-07:00

Apartheid is just like Segregation, except the only difference is that instead of it being in America, it was in South Africa, not the whole country. Apartheid was a very serious issue and lasted from 1948 to 1994. It pretty much gave whites rights and prevented non-white people from having rights and experiencing freedom. Nelson Mendela is on of those people who would try to get freedom from the oppressors of his country. He tried doing violent revolts, only to cause himself to be put in jail for starting an uprising. There were many groups of people that would try to stop apartheid because they felt that it was wrong to be doing segregation to African people.

African Independence

2008-04-16T05:11:00.000-07:00

During the times after World War 2, The Africans started to really pursue independence. To do this they would have to rebel against the Europeans, but the Europeans were actually thinking of how they were going to give the country back to the people. The reason why is because after World War 2, they needed money to repair the country. This made them think, how much money is used to control these colonies that we have in Africa. They started the Negritude movement. This caused a lot of revolutions because of the fact that the European rulers had treated them so harshly. This was one of the main reasons for the revolution, the other main reason was because they wanted their independence. They started by letting more African people be able to be in the government. This wasn't a big enough change, so they rebelled, also known as the Kenya and the Mau Mau rebellion. The English had seized farmland that was really important, so they decided to take it back by means of fighting. The leader of this Kenyan rebellion was a guy named Jomo Kenyatta. Mau Mau decided that in order to gain control of the high lands, they must try to scare them off because he didn't want to start an all out war that he was probably going to use.

The Cuban Missle Crisis

2008-03-31T05:38:00.000-07:00

The Cuban crisis was when Soviet missiles were placed in Cuba. This was very startling because Cuba is only ninety miles away from Florida, and plus the technology that the Soviets had, it would be so much easier to attack the USA from there. Since they were at war, this was assumed to be a very bad threat. At first it was just news, but then, as it was happening, JFK ordered ships and airplanes to try to see what was happening. The Soviets sent battleships of their own, violence almost seemed inevitable. It was so bad that, JFK had to send special planes to spy on Cuba, to see if they were still building bombs or if they had launched one already.It was a really intense moment because, just in case that they aimed Nukes at our cities, we did the same to theirs, we knew that they wouldn't blow it us up because then they would lose their land and so would we. All the countries were in fear of war because of World War one and two, this time it was a nuclear war. This scared every nation, even the United States and the Soviet Union, because the United states had the range for the nuclear missiles and plus, the United States had tried to take over Cuba in a failed attempt. It was an a stale mate for about eight days, but then the president made an agreement to the Soviet Union, saying that if the Soviets pulled back, then the United States would no longer try to invade Cuba, however th Soviets wanted the Americans to get their missiles out of Turkey.

NATO and The Warsaw Pact

2008-03-31T05:25:00.000-07:00

NATO is the organization of countries to defend each other, just in case that anything should happen to another country do to the Soviet Union. This didn't go good with the Soviet Union, they saw this as a threat because some many countries against one country, so Russia made the Warsaw pact. This allied Russia with Poland and other countries. America formed these pact because they were afraid of the Russia, so they wanted allies to help them, just in case anything happened. The whole reason behind this Cold war was because of the fact that they had two different economics systems. With these pacts, they hoped to scare and intimidate the others from actually trying to attack them, they didn't want to fight because, if they did, the whole world would probably destroyed or affected by these Nuclear weapons. This was the main reason why they didn't just set off a war by nuking each other, because it would affect the whole world and would destroy these two nations.

Film Lesson - "The Right Stuff"

2008-03-31T05:08:00.000-07:00

In the movie, the right stuff, they were competing against the Soviets because of the fact that they wanted to be in space and wanted to be in control. When the Soviets put the first satellites up, the Americans were kind of scared because they put it up before the Americans did. The soviets were winning because every time that the Americans got a little bit further then the Russians, they would do something even better, like when Americans put the first animal in space. Thats when the Russians put the first man into space. When the Americans actually reached Mach one, they were so protective of this because they didn't want the Soviets to know that they had the technology to fly at such a fast rate. The Soviets were ahead of them in the space race for a long time despite the fact that we had the best German minds developing the spaceships. A couple of scenes that will help me is when, one airplane had gotten to Mach one, and then when the spaceships kept crashing because they weren't good enough to travel into space.

Film Lesson: "Schindler's List"

2008-03-20T05:23:00.000-07:00

This movie illustrated the version that had less of an impact on me because it wasn't as cruel as the real thing was. It was more of a movie in which the Jews weren't treated as badly and not only that, but at the end of the war, the people looked nothing like the documentary. Something that is powerful to me in the movie is how a German Nazi went from hating the Jews, to trying to save them from getting killed by working for him. They would make weapons and be feed well, unlike the Labor camps and the eventual death camps. There still were some powerful scenes in this movie, such as Auschwitz was first made, and when the little girl died and you saw her body being thrown into the giant fire. There was also when the Germans were taking the Jews out of Krakow Ghettos, the mass exterminations and sending them to the labor camps. Examples of images that will stay in my head from this movie is the little girl wondering around while everybody was getting killed. The fear and the look on her face was so dramatic and when the children were hiding, and they went as low as to go to the bathrooms and try to hide there. This scared me alot and made me realize how badly they really had it. Words could never describe how bad they had it, so the best thing to do was the movie because it inspired me to think differently about the what the Nazi's did.

Film Lesson: "Night and Fog"

2008-03-20T05:05:00.000-07:00

Night and fog was one of the best documentaries in terms of information, despite the fact of its gruesomeness. The film was very powerful, it has changed my perspective on the holocaust. It was kind of similar to Schindlers list because of some of the scenes in some of the movies. Such scenes as the when the Jews were working in the death camps. I think that the documentary explains it more because of the fact that it is more powerful by showing the cruel images of the holocaust. The documentary also shows what the free people would do, unlike the movie, where alot of people seemed to survive. The documentary shows the severity of how they lived and how they were forced to live for such a long time.

The Treaty of Versailles (ended WWI)

2008-02-11T05:06:00.000-08:00

The treaty of Versailles affected Germany by making it have no army. They also said that this war was all Germany's fault. They said that Germany was behinds everything because Germany was the main aggressors in World war 1. It was signed five years after Arch duke Ferdinand was assassinated. It also said that they were really bad people and they were economically depressed because of this. The reason why they were so economically depressed was because the treaty required Germany to pay reparation money to all of the Entente side. They even lost land to prevent them from gaining back the land and to prevent another war. This treaty actually encouraged another war because of its maltreatment amongst the losing side. Even after all this punishment, they weren't even allowed to join the League of Nations because of the fact that they were very dangerous and could betray the League of Nations. For a while it stayed like this until a man named Hitler came to power. He would convince the people that fascism was the way to get back up from economic depression. The people agreed, and because this worked, they named him the ruler of Germany. I think that the treaty of Versailles led to Hitler becoming ruler because of the fact that it was so harsh on Germany, that they needed someone to take over and be tough about it. This is why Hitler looked like the man to over power the others and become the ultimate ruler. I think that historians who think that the treaty Versailles led to the rise of Hitler and fascism was correct because Germany was going through some hard times.

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk) and the Modernization of Turkey

2008-02-08T05:05:00.000-08:00

The ottoman empire was a huge kingdom, until World War 1, this was when the Ottoman empire lost most of its land. This was due to a lose to in World war 1. One man named, Mustafa Kemal is brought a new form of government. He made the Ottoman people join up and create a new country, and it known as Turkey. He wanted Turkey to be a non-secular government. He did this by convincing them that they needed a new government and his non-secular ways should be changed to make a better government. Secular is a government based non-religion and not following what it says, instead rule the government according to facts. Such examples are religious schools, they are non-secular. Another non-secular thing is any kind of religion. Out of this, women were able to vote and have more rights. Also, because of this, there economy and social relationships with other nations increased as well.

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

2008-02-07T05:07:00.000-08:00

Gandhi helped the people of India by civil disobedience. He tried to unite the people to make one country, he united the people by making them not hit the British soldiers. their violence caused others to agree with Gandhi. He did the great salt march. This was when Gandhi was trying to get salt, rather the have to pay for it. He also used the violence of the police against themselves. he tried to use the fact that they were hitting harmless people, this showed the cruelty of the British. I think that they would have gotten their independence anyways, because Britain didn't have the money to do it. They were using majority of their money to repair Britain from what happened. World War two led to the destruction of some part of Britain. This made it harder to run a society.

Joseph Stalin and Totalitarianism

2008-01-11T07:45:00.000-08:00

Totalitarianism is when the government controls all aspects of the citizens lives. They do this economically, politically, and socially. He lied to the people by saying that he would be taking over temporarily, meanwhile he was planning to stay dictator until he died. The five year plan was to keep him in power for five more years, until the man who could rule that country would run it. He decided that he would run it like he did until he died, because there was always a dictator in Totalitarianism. The great purge was when he took over and started abusing the people and their rights. He also provided them with almost no supplies. Stalin was an evil cruel dictator who abused the people and their ability to have freedom.

Film lesson: Doctor Zhivago

2008-01-10T07:45:00.000-08:00

Dr. Zhivago depicted a society in the middle of war, with itself and other countries. It depicted this by the people trying to defeat the Russian Cavalry and they ended up getting massacred. They also showed the soldiers abandoning the war so that they would not have to be there anymore. The Russian people wanted change because the government was treating the people like they were nothing. This is why people wanted to make change, tom prevent them from having to deal with a ruler who does not care about them. They depicted communism as a political system that was unorganized. They showed this by having 13 different families living in one house, even though it originally belonged to Doctor Zhivago. He was shocked when he saw it being run like this. He was also confused on how it worked.

Causes of WWI

2008-01-04T07:45:00.000-08:00

There were many causes to World War one. The first of many is the militarism. Militarism is a nations policy to maintain strong armed forces. The reason why is because they were competing for land. As they were, there military was increasing. Great Britain and Germany were competing for the largest navies. France, Russia, and Germany were competing for the largest military. This also put pressure on other countries to increase the number of soldiers and arms that they have. Another cause of World War one is nationalism. Nationalism is when you feel that you feel extremely loyal to a nation and concern for its welfare. Some countries wanted independence from bigger countries, meanwhile, the bigger countries thought that they were greater then anybody else. They were also looking to get land that they had lost. This would result in tensions between other countries. The third cause of World War one is the assassination of Franz Ferdinand. A man from Siberia assassinated the Arch Duke of Austria, who's name was Franz Ferdinand. This set off a bunch of declarations of war. This would form two sides. The triple Alliance and the Triple Entente. This then broke the tension and resulted in war.

Fascism Podcast Draft

2007-12-16T08:57:00.001-08:00

Fascism is the political idea that, the average person should support their country rather than pursue individual freedoms. Fascists are people that are nationalistic, militaristic, anti-communist, totalitarianism, and corporatism as some of the idea's of a Fascist. The word fascism derives from the Latin word fasces, which means " Bundle" or the Italian word, fascismo which means "Bundle" or "Union". They believe that corporations should be able to become monopolies, to make great economic progress in the country. They believe that freedom of speech and press should not be allowed, however, they usually try to make the people convert into one religion, one ethnic background, one cultural and racist background. Fascism really started to progress in the years prior to World War two.

This was when two famous Fascist Dictators came to power. One of the reasons why they came to power was because World War one had left them economically and socially in disarray. The Two Dictators were Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini. Hitler was dictator of Germany and Mussolini was dictator of Italy. They would also use threats and fear to control the population. These dictatorships used the fact that the League of Nations and the treaty of Versailles was depriving them of there true power. The people believed that they were the right people to do the job. Once Hitler and Mussolini were in power, they bascically started WW II because they were so militarily aggresive. In other words-they were bullies.
The extremely poor and middle class favored Fascism because it was supposed to aid the poor and middle class rather then the wealthy. Other people who support this idea were, nationalist, people not affected by World War one, Big Corporations, landowners ( because they got there own land) Small business owners and extreme conservatives. After world War two, the number of fascist have decreased tremendously.

The Opium Wars

2007-12-14T07:46:00.000-08:00

The Opium wars was about how the British wanted to get tea for very low prices. This resulted in the English selling a drug called opium. The people got addicted and then the British sold the drugs to the people for lots of tea. The Chinese tried to complain about it but the English would not listen. As a result, a war brewed between the Chinese and British. The British, however, had technology that was far superior to the technology of thew Chinese. The Chinese were humiliated as a result because the British technology. The British ended up winning the war without much competition. Then China was forced to trade with other countries.

" The White Man's Burden"

2007-12-10T07:43:00.000-08:00

The "white man's burden" is making the savages in Africa more civilized. The reason why is because they wanted to completely own Africa. He was really racist, so his ideas were blinded by his misconceptions of their race. I agree with the analysis because he was influenced by the Englishman's idea of a civilized colony. I think that America is still Imperialistic today because they are trying to take control of Iraq for peace. We are living "The White Man's Burden" because we are trying to make other people act, by forcing them to take on our own government and way of life.

"The Scramble for Africa"

2007-12-05T07:43:00.001-08:00

Africa divided into many sections after the Europeans started to conquer all the land in the area. Africa was conquered by Belgium, England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal. They were looking to expand there land and to obtain the resources that the Africans had. These materials were diamond, gold, silver, rubber, tin, copper, salt, wood, ivory, iron, and other valuables. They invented the machine gun and a cure for Malaria. This made it easier to conquer and move through Africa. Since they made weird borders, this gave allied tribes separation, and the enemy tribes closer together. This made disputes and wars against the other tribes, but the Europeans did not care about the Africans, but a way to get better resources for very little money.

Film lesson "Mountains of the Moon"

2007-12-03T07:45:00.000-08:00

Europeans faced many hardships as they went to the middle of Africa. Tribes of the native African people would ambush and kill Europeans. Malaria would also kill the people. The journey was so long, that many people died of heat and exuation. The reason why the lake that is the center of the Nile river is named after a British queen is because an Englishman found it and then named it after the queen of England. The Europeans had guns, while the Africans had spears. The Europeans would eventually get machine guns and a cure for Malaria. This would allow easy penetration through the heart of Africa.

The Meiji Restoration of Japan

2007-11-27T07:44:00.000-08:00

The Meji era came after Commodore Matthew Perry came and started rough housing the Japanese. Matthew Perry came from the U.S.A and started making threats about bringing more ships. This is how Matthew Perry got a trading agreement with Japan. This caused the Japanese to realize that they had to modernize, or else they will be taken over. The Japanese economy changed for the better. The government realized that there was no money coming for everybody, so they decided to stop Feudalism and start having a economy that benefited everybody. Now, instead of the Nobles making all the money, the peasants and everybody else can make money. The Japanese made great changes in their technology as well. Japan made better schools, they made a better government, they increased in knowledge. This led to many ships, and weapons to be built easily. They made factories and this caused mass production. Japan is geologically called an archipelago. An Archipelago is a large group or chain of islands.

Karl Marx and Communism.

2007-11-15T08:07:00.000-08:00

Karl Marx was a revolutionist because he thought that the capitalists were hogging all the money while the workers were the ones who should be owning the companies and factories. He wanted everybody to be equal in ower and finacial levels. Communism is the political view where the common people obtain the wealth from the rich, so that everybody has the same amount of money. The reason why Karl Marx wanted cummunism to expand so that it could take over the world because he wanted the working class to gain control of the government. Karl Marx saw the working middle to low class man as a the " Good Guy's". He saw the rich factory owning capitalists as the guy's who were abusing the lower class's. The reason why he saw it this way was because the rich factory owners controlled everything and had to do little work, while the middle class had to do all the work.

Karl Marx and the Industrial Revolution

2007-11-15T07:43:00.000-08:00

A man named Karl Marx disapproved of the fact that the wealthy used the workers by making them do cheap labor for long hours and would them hurt them if they did not work. This inspired the word communism because of the fact that he thought that everybody should be at the same financial level as everybody else. the word communism means common, he wanted everybody to be the same and wanted everybody to act the same as each other.

Podcast draft

2007-10-25T07:51:00.000-07:00

This was a time in which inventions furthered the ability of man. This made things run a lot faster. Anything, from machines, to obtaining resources by these machines to make more and new ones. City-states would be the result of the Industrial revolution. This was also good for those who wanted work because factories were made during this time, thus making work available. During these times, machines took over for the manual labor that was accustomed. these machines caused trade to be much easier. They could build canals, and railroads. Coal was a primary reason for most of the advances, Trains, electric power generator. The first one was would lead to a second Industrial revolution. The reason why it started it in England was because of the end of Feudalism. This caused the English civil war.

Cities were both good and bad. they were good because people could socialize. This allowed workers to get acquainted in stead of working by themselves. Since every one had to be in cities, it allowed learning to commence, thus the intelligence level increases. However, there was a down side to cities as well. Since a lot of people lived together, and it was dirty, this allowed diseases to spread fast and kill a lot of people in the towns. Also, Over population set up for a need for a lot of constant supplies.

They had child labor, which means children as old as five could be working in Textile mills or coal mines for almost nothing. The reason why factories did this was because they did cheap labor and they did almost the same work as adults. A lot of children would end up dieing in the mills or factories because of over-work or starvation. They would use the materials to mass produce products, causing Objects to be very cheap and inventions were at a prime here. They made steam powered boats, pots, pans, and they used iron and coal to make these inventions.

Nationalism and the Creation of Italy

2007-10-19T08:04:00.000-07:00

The definition of nationalism is when you are dedicated and absolutely loyal to what you and your country want to do to better it. You also take pride in everything your country does for you. I am nationalistic because I am proud of what country represents and how it represents it. I solute the American flag, I have the language of English, and I have taken part in the American learning system. Before Italy became a country, it was a lot of small countries that bordered each other. Nationalism gave rise to Italy by Revolution, Two leaders got fed up with a ruler not born in Italy. The revolutions ended in disaster because they were unsuccessful. Camillo di Cavour, who owned a good amount of Italy, he decicded to expand and create the nation of Italy.

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

2007-10-15T07:45:00.000-07:00

Simon was born on July 24, 1783 and lived in Caracas, Venezuela. He was a great military general who turns out to inspire the Latin American people to revolt. He inspired his people for democracy and the only way was to get rid of the Spaniards. These wars to free countries in South America was known as the Bolivar wars. After the War, that was a success, he went on to marry María Teresa Rodríguez del Toro. When she died a year later, he decided to never remarry. He ended serving as a president for Gran Columbia. He was going to go to England or France, when he finally died after a long battle with Tuberculosis.

After the French Revolution

2007-09-28T07:49:00.000-07:00

The reign for terror was a time in which the Europeans, saw the French and feared that a similar result would happen. They were constantly spying on the French and observing your country. The country of France was trying to change for the better, but democracy came by after all this fighting. This fighting ended with a lot of people being killed by the guillotine. In order to execute soemone, they had to parade thwe person for about an hour and a half, around the city streets. They then put your head on a spot and cranked up the blade. When the blade got to the top, they let go, and the blade fell. They head was severed off of the body. There was a man named Maximilien Robespierre, who was a great leader and a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He ended up creating a law that said that there didn't need to be witness's to be sent to death. Before he died 1,285 people were executed by the guillotine. He believed in a Supreme being, who wasn't God, but a radical Democrat. He would be charged with Dictatorship, Tyranny, ands the conspiracy to against the Republic. He would executed on June 17, 1789.

French Revolution

2007-09-27T07:47:00.000-07:00

The French Revolution lasted 10 years as the struggle between the poor and the rich. The rich was being taxed almost nothing and the poor was being taxed the most. The poor were even voted against because the Clergy and the Nobles always voted against the third estate. The third estate got so angry, that they revolted and ended up taking a prison called the Bastille. They then took the King Louis XV1 and held him in Paris. He would no longer be away from Paris because he used to live in Versailles. A couple of years later, he was killed by the gulliatine.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

2007-09-11T07:44:00.001-07:00

The difference between the Heliocentric and the geocentric is what each one revolves around. The Heliocentric theory is that all the planets revolve around a giant ball of plasma called a sun. The sun keeps everything rotating to prevent it from going away. The geocentric belief was that all planets and the sun revolve around the earth. The Earth is the planet that keeps everything going. They thought this because thew sun moves around but it looks like the sun moves with the earth and changes, and the planets are always moving. The church thought that for years that everything revolved around the earth but Copernicus was the one to think differently and proposed the heliocentric theory.

The trial of Galileo was supposed to show that all the people had to agree with the Church. Galileo's book was to precise when it comes the fact that the Earth revolves around the sun rather then the accepted tradition of the Sun and the other planets revolving around the Earth. Galileo ended up saying that he apologized that he was lieing to the people about how the planets revolved around the sun, but instead revolved around the Earth. After the trial, he was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life, this was when he tried new experiments.

Scientific Revolution: Scientific Method

2007-09-10T07:51:00.000-07:00

Around the 1500, a lot of scholars believed that the ancient Greeks and Romans had great technology. They followed the exact methods of the ancient Greeks and Romans. The other way that they got scientific research and ideas was from the bible. It was a common theory that the sun and the planets revolve around the earth. Since, there is scientific revolution, we know that these facts aren't true.

An Italian man named Galileo invented the scientific method by getting to different sized stones and dropped them from the leaning tower of Pisa and then he noticed that they dropped at the same speed, this disproved Aristotle's theory. This then became excepted as the idea to base research on. These scientist's didn't just leave theories, they tested these theories to see if they were right. There was even a man named Isac Newton, and he tested Gravity and his theories still remain amongst our theories today.

There are four parts to the scientific method and they are, The first is Observing, the second is creating a Hypothesis, the third is Make prediction, the fourth is Testing the predictions. Observations are really good when it comes to finding out something to test. Creating a Hypothesis is easy because it is seeing what you want to accomplish when you are testing. The prediction is the outcome that you think will happen. The last one requires time and the materials to preform the test and see weather or not the prediction was true or was it different.

Creation vs Evolution

2007-09-06T07:55:00.000-07:00

Evolution is the idea that every single living being has been progressing to adapt to the environment and to become different over time. Men originally were primates but as time went on, we evolved to be more intelligent and the humans we are now. This creates mutations to all the organisms, which is called natural selection. The living in which all animals and creatures compete to survive is called the survival of the fittest. Charles Darwin was the main guy in the creation of the theory of evolution.

Creation is the theory that God created every single thing on Earth and created the universe. This says that god, or a deity created the Earth. This is based on the book called the Genesis. In the old times, this was widely excepted and if you didn't agree with this concept, you were deemed a satanist and most likely banned from the town. Most religious authorities and believers of that religion agree with this theory. The church was the founder of this theory.

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