Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

The Reign Of Terror
The Reign Of Terror lasted 10 month during the french revolution. Everybody wanted democracy but it wasn't happening. This was a war of dictatorship. during this time a couple amount of men tried to govern the country of France. But Maximilien Robespierre ended up over powering everybody else and ended up dominating. his biggest competition was Danton. Danton was good at public speeches but Robespierre was hard working and ambitions. Robespierre believed in Rousseau work. Rousseau was a great enlightenment thinker. The leaders wanted to raise a new army.
In 1793 they passed a law in France called "the law of suspects". This was a law that eliminated those they believed was a traitor enforced by the revolutionary people. Thousands of people died just because they were suspects they was no need of evidence. Their heads were chopped off. This was france's way of solving problems.

The French Revolution: Social Causes

The French revolution brought King Louis XVI to an end. The french revolution began in 1789. France had economic problems but was very powerful and the people had no freedom at all especially those who were poor. Monarchy had total control. The nobles and the clergy enjoyed as much as they can taking advantage of those who were poor. They had freedom in everything especially political matters. The clergy and nobles did not have to pay taxes but those who were poor had to pay heavy taxes. Peasants which were the common people were part of the third estate those who were poor payed heavy taxes.
The French were inspired by the famous enlightenment thinkers like Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau. They opened the French people mind creating them and giving them the thought of going against their king. On top of the influence of the enlightenment thinkers they were as well inspired to go against their King because the Americans just won a revolution against England.
The year was 1789 and King Louis XVI called the estate general because of their financial situation. The peasants which were part of the third estate did not agree at all with the unfair system of the general estate. The third estate created a national assembly some were afraid of the king and others weren't. All they wanted was a change in the Constitution. The third estate were hungry and angry so their only option was to attack the Bastille prison for political prisoners. Once Bastille came tearing down the french revolution began.

Copernicus and the Trail of Galileo

There was a time when people long before thought that the earth was at the center of the universe but that of course is incorrect. Scientist like Copernican believed that this was incorrect. The theory of believing that the sun is not the center of the universe is called geocentric and the theory of believing that the sun is the center of the universe is called heliocentric. Geocentric came first and it was hard to prove that it was wrong but during the scientific revolution the heliocentric theory was thought about allot within the scientists.
Galileo was sentenced to home imprisonment for that fact that he disagree with the Roman Catholic Church. The Catholic church believed that the center of the universe was the earth and he of course believed that was incorrect so they had to take actions and send him to trail in Rome. At 69 years of age he withrew and then was sentenced to home imprisonemt. But he still continued with his science activities.

Scientific Revolution: Scientific Method

People would gather their information and ideas about science according with what the ancient Romans and the ancient Greeks and what the bible said. These were their sources for questions they had about science. That didn't mean everything that was written was right. The ancient Greeks and Christians believe that the earth and all the planets revolved around the earth. But it was proven that that was wrong according to scientist and the involvement of scientific revolution.
People would believe whatever they wanted to believe but not all of it was proven. Thank god for the scientific revolution because it caused the ideas to be challenged and thought about even more carefully. Aristowas in the center of the universe but this statement was wrong. They believed that the sun tle thought that heavy objects fell quicker than lighter objects but thanks to Galileo he proved that this theory of Aristotle was wrong. Objects of different weight fall at the same time. There were also many other theories that were proven incorrect. Thanks to scientific revolution this has happened. Important scientist weren't afraid to speak out and retest these theories and that's what science should be about.

Evolution vs. Creation

Evolution
A. Evolution is a process that happens after a long period of time. All living things at a certain point look diffrent from what they look now because as the years have passed all living organisms have changed their body structures. All organisms have a commmon ancestor according to the theory humans come from primates.
B. Charles Darwin focused and studyed evolution. One of his thoery was about natural selection.
According to Darwin he believed that natural selection was an important process. Natural selection was natures process to make the strongest organisms live when a biome is changing temperature, food source and other changes in a biome. This was called survival of the fittest. Only the strongest animals will survive that phase and the weakest ones will die. These new survival genes would be passed on to survive and this cycle will keep repeating.
C. Darwins thoery has affected the beliefs of others. Some people agree with his thoery and his thoery opened a whole new world for these people but others oppose his thoery. These people who oppose would say something most likely like god created the world and only he has changed and created all living organisms.

Creation
A. Creationism is a rejection from evolution. This is a belief that all humanity, life and the universe and everything in between is a creation from god.
B. As well as people agreeing about evolution there are also poeple who agree with creationism and they belief that god put us here and he is changing us not evolution. In the early 19 hundreds people in the Unites States passed laws stating that evolution shouldnt be tought at all and especially in school.
C. Even if people oppose evolution diffrent religions have thier own point of view of this universe.
Hinduism creationism believe that human have lived in unchanged form for many millions of years.
Jewish creationism think science is as true as in what they believe.
Islamic and christians have some similairties. They believe god was first and created this universe therefore everything comes from god.