Ap Euro Dbq

In 1492, the world was forever changed when Columbus discovered the new world. This exciting news inspired hundreds of new explorers to come see what else the world has to offer. The explorers were Europeans who traveled the Atlantic ocean to conquer the Americas. They wanted to conquer the Americas for glory and gold. The Europeans wanted to make their country the best and they had already experienced brutal wars in Europe for the fame. They had experience, and the Americas did not scare them. The colonization process happened from a span of 1500-1600. The native populations who lived in the Americas had to suffer drastically, as they saw their home land get destroyed. The native populations of the New World suffered due to the purposeful

The Age of Enlightenment saw many great changes in Western Europe. It was an age of reason and philosophes. During this age, changes the likes of which had not been seen since ancient times took place. Such change affected evert pore of Western European society. Many might argue that the Enlightenment really did not bring any real change, however, there exists and overwhelming amount of facts which prove, without question, that the spirit of the Enlightenment was one of change-specifically change which went against the previous teachings of the Catholic Church. Such change is apparent in the ideas, questions, and philosophies of the time, in the study of science, and throughout the monarchial system.

During the Early Modern Era, Western Europe expands. The Roman Catholic Church went through many challenges before the Protestant Reformation, which was the beginning of the many ideas that will emerge in Europe, such as the Renaissance ending thus letting science escalate. The Renaissance inspired a load of curiosity in many fields, such as science. Claims and ideas that had been accepted by the world for many of years previous to this point in history were now being challenged and questioned by Scholars, especially since religious leaders challenged and questioned accepted ways of thinking with God and salvation in the church during the Reformation. Collectedly, thus began Scientific Revolution in the 1600’s. The Scientific Revolution was a major part of World History in Europe. It made people question god, science and created new religions. This time period also shaped European

In the 17th century, the Dutch Republic experienced a Golden Age and was able to maintain security, unity, and prosperity in its society and economy. The nation was considered a leading power, especially in trade and ideas, within Europe. However, it was not long before circumstances changed and the state face many problems establishing peace and agreement. By the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries, there had been a significant change in the Dutch Republic’s power, for multiple factors and reasons. From 1650 to 1713, not only external factors such as European intervention and British trading competition, but also internal division damaged the Dutch Republic and challenged its authority as a

Though the mongols were seemingly barbaric in the way which they conquered their territory, the empire they established was advanced in how its society and culture were organized and developed.

During the Scientific Revolution, in the 17th century, several philosophers began to doubt scientific knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. One of those philosophers, Galileo, discovered a new innovation that could have changed the viewpoint on the Church’s Scripture accuracy. Galileo discovered that the sun stayed still as the Earth revolved around it, which was the opposite of what the Church taught. During this time, it was very dangerous for Galileo to oppose the Church. This was because doubts about the Church would lead to a loss of its power and the people’s trust, which was unwanted.

Copernicus discovery was a revelation and it undermined the system of hierarchy in the universe that gave order to the world, which was central to the Christian faith. (7) It was believed that God had created the universe for man, and that he had given the central position in his creation to man, giving people a profound sense of security however Copernicus theory took away man’s central position in the universe. (7) The new scientific discoveries were detrimental to authority as they fostered doubt uncertainty, anxiety and threated belief in the faith (*), however the full implications of these discoveries were not fully understood by people during the scientific revolution. The enlightenment further built on this decreasing belief in political and religious authority, and an increasing belief in the power through human reason (8). Critical reason was believed to be able to be used to combat both ignorance and tyranny. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) viewed the enlightenment as man emerging from a self-imposed state of immaturity. He believed that with critical reasoning man would be enlightened with the truth, further building on the discoveries of the scientific revolution, the enlightenment enabled was the start of people questioning, what they believed with critical reason. The so called age of reason’ targeted religion and the old way of Aristotelian logic.(8) The discoveries of the scientific

In 1621 King James signed a contract permitting settlers to colonize North America. The time area that was taking place was the Renaissance, which was a time of mass innovation. These improvements gave Europeans the chance to explore the new world and gain better opportunities. With all of the things that began to innovate, science was one of them, also being the main reason for their exploration. This is due to the fact that science had a toll on the advancements in maps.

Between 1500-1700, Europe transformed in three fundamental ways: ideologically, politically, and socially. Three of the most notable and influential political thinkers of that time were Francis Bacon, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes, each of which had a great impact on the growth and development of Europe.

They were ideas of liberty and equality where Greeks and Judeo Christian’s tradition had hundreds of years of sanctity and having the values of an individual human being. During the Enlightenment, it reflected on the stress of human dignity and human happiness on earth. Basically having faith in science, rationality, as well as progress. Historians like John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu were responsible for the concern on joining the Enlightenment by using personal freedom and legal equality to justify a self-liberal government. Since Liberalism had lacked of support throughout the 18th century, Liberals questioned if political ideas were good enough for the economy. As well as taking off traditional practices and institutions which would

With this week’s reading material, the illustration of the social role that women held in the era of Scientific Revolution was painted very clearly. The role that women held was mainly to feed their family, clean, and attend to whatever needs their family may need. However, there were some women that were self determined to be different than the typical social role. These women discovered new things and kept discovering even when the society around them told them it was not acceptable. These women were not recognized for their accomplishments and some were not even bothered that they were not recognized at all. For example, Caroline Herschel worked alongside her brother and helped him discover many things but was never insistent on being recognized

During the Scientific Revolution, Europeans developed new approaches to looking at the natural world, natural philosophers and physicians challenged and scrutinized older scientific and medical systems while developing new ones, and philosophers gave the emerging scientific method a sound foundation with their comprehensive theories. An internal community of natural philosophers dedicated to natural science developed, and the natural philosophers collected and analyzed data about the world.

Throughout the seventeenth century many new ideas were brought about as a direct result of the Scientific Revolution. These ideas challenged the traditional ways of European thought. . With these new concepts, the idea that science could explain everything, while religion could not, began to spread. The revolutionary thinkers of that time altered traditional interpretations of nature and challenged the established sources of knowledge. Among these intellectuals were Galileo, Kepler and Newton.

Men have dominated and control the scientific world for decades. Men often thought that they were the superior sex and that they had a better understanding of science and how to conduct experiments. Many men regarded women as less superior because they believed that females did not have the mental capacities and resources to understand how science, nature and the universe works and that women are too emotional. However, through the founding of the Royal Society by King Charles II women was slowly allowed to enter the scientific world, conduct their own experiments and published their own writings. Through plays like the Conversation On The Plurality Of Worlds by Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle and The Virtuoso by Thomas Shadwell it shows how

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with senses, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use and by some other means to give us knowledge which we can attain by him. " The Church believed that Galileo was dishonoring the Bible, when all he was trying to say is that God left mysteries in that book, so that we the people could discover them. Some parts of Galileo’s letter really had me chuckling to myself because he used a lot of confidence and sarcasm throughout this letter. “They say that since theology is the queen of sciences, she need not bend in any way to accommodate herself to the teachings of less worthy sciences which are subordinate to her. " If I interrupted it correctly he meant that even if you see something with your own eyes and can prove it with detail, if it goes against the "queen of science" meaning what the church wants you have to ignore