Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

After the revolution everyone expected democarcy, but it turned out to be very opposite. The King, queen, and the nobles lost almost all of the power. The middle class, and the peasants were running the country.But not very long, because a man name Maximilien Robespierre took control over the government.He tried to remove any thing that had to do with the old monarchyHowever after the revolution the changes not only took place in the government but changes in calendar were made also along with the government. The months of the year were renamed, and sundays were removed from it. The revolutionaries thought that the religion is old fashioned. Lot of churches were closed down in Paris.

Robespierre ruled France like a dictator. During his time of rule the time period was called the Reign Of Terror. So many people were executed by the government.No one felt safe during that time, even the people in the government.He killed the King of France Louis XVI. He even killed the queen Marie Antoinette.As mentioned before the people in the government did not fell safe,because they thought that their head would be next to be chopped off.So a conspiracy was planned against Robespierre,he was arrested, and his head was chopped off.After he was executed the Regin of Terror was over, and there was stability in the France government.

The French Revolution

1. They were charging lot of taxes on the peasants. The taxes that they pay goes the king, and the nobles who spend it for their good. All the money goes towards the benefit of the higer class people. The lower and the middle class people just had enough to survive, whatever left over goes to the higher class.
2. They would be grumbling about their unfair treatment that they recieved from the nobles, and the king. They worked all day on the land and whatever amount of limited money they get goes to the nobles, and kings. So they basically worked for the higher class people.
3.The cartoon shows that the peasant is taking the burden of the king, and the noble sitting on his back,also refers to peasants working all day on the land and paying taxes that goes to nobles, and kings for their royalty.
4.The peasant is complaining about all the things that he have to give to the king, plus the tax. He has to give grains, and oats to them also. It is the same idea in today's everyday life. We work and some portion of our earnings goes to the government for the country. The differnce back then was that the money would go to the higher class.
5.They felt that they had no rights over anything, they had to do what the higher class rich people say they had no choice. They felt over powered, and felt like animals who were just born to work all day, and had just limited amounted of food left over for them.
6.The people that would be most influential to his belifs and ideass are the peasants, because he wrote that everyone would get to choose their own leader, had rights in the government, everyone would be treated equally, and everyone had to pay taxes, not only them.
7.The people who banned this were the rich higer class, nobles, and the kings, because if this takes place now they would have to pay tax, they would have to work the land and they would have to plant their own crops.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

John Locke was one of the famous enlightment thinkers. Thomas Jefferson was heavily influenced by John Locke when he wrote the U.S. constitution. He influenced modern democracy also which is a form of government in many countries. The rights that Jefferson is talking about is that all men are created equal,that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. According to Declaration of Independence th government obtain its power from people.

In any form of democracy the government gets its power from people. People are the government, and every american citizen has a right to vote, and chose their own leader. If they dont like the leader they can run themselve or choose someone else. This is because when the thirteen colonies were being ruled by the British king they did not have a representation in their government, however, the Americans were forced to pay taxes. The Americans did not want another King like British had, so they wanted their government to opposite of British. In Britain only the king rules, but the americans did not want that so they wanted democracy, so every person can have a representation in the government.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

Heleocentrism is the theory that the sun is at the center of the solar system. Earth is one of the number planets that is orbiting the sun. Nicolas Copernicus stated the theory based on little evidence that he had to support his claims. This theory was not proven by physics, and math beacsue math was not very advanced to prove the theory right or wrong, however in the seventheenth century development of algebra, trigonometry, and physics was gradually advancing.Geocentric opposed the theory of heleocentrism.

Geocentric is the theory that states that the earth is in the middle of the universe, and the objects go around it. The ancient Greeks believe this theory very commonly. Great philosophers like Aristotle, and Ptolemy accepted the theory. Also ancient China believed that the earth was in the middle of the universe. They believed that the sun, other planets, and stars that are visible with naked eyes are surrounding the earth.The Geocentric theory came before the heleocentricsm.

Galileo was trialed because he collided with the Roman Catholic church.Galileo's world of science and humanism collides with the world of Scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church.Gallileo belived in helocentricsm.His belief oppose the Roman catholic church. That was the end of Gallileo, and he was killed.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

The scientific method is a series of steps that are follow in an experiment to solve a promblem,or to get to a solution. The scientist back then and now used and uses this method for their experiments. The first step in a Scientific Method is the Problem. Problem is the question or the main idea that you are trying to solve. After the Problem comes the hypothesis, hypothesis is an educated guess based on your knowledge of the topic. Sometime at the conclusion of your project your hypothesis can be proven wrong, or it can be correct.


The other steps for the Scientific Method are the Experiment, Data, and the conclusion. The Experiment is the test that you do to see if your hypothesis is correct or incorrect. Within the Experiment there is also one important step that you need is the Data. Data is the information that you take while doing your experiment to have a proof for your experiment. The last and the final step is the conclusion. Conclusion is the result of your experiment.


For example I would want to measure how tall the building i live in is? I would first form a hypothesis based on my knowledge and take an educated guess of how tall my building is. Then i would actually conduct an experiment by masuring the building from top to bottom three times. Then i would write down my data. Finally i would check and see if my hypothesis was correct or incorrect, and see my conclusion.

Evolution vs. Creation

The theory of Darwin's evolution states that life came from non-life. It is also stated that fishes are related to bannanas. He also stated that these changes occur during a long period of time, not just days, months or couple of years, it takes many years to changes to occur. For example they say that humans come from monkeys. We came from changes(evolution) that occured in monkeys. In Darwin's theory it is also stated that the traits that are in humans will be passed on to the offspring.

Majority of the people say that humans came from creations of god. They believe that god ios the creator of the universe, adn he is the one who created us(humans). Religions such as Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Hinduism believe in god or gods. They all believe that god was the created of everything that is here.

I also believe that everything that is on the universe was created by god. I am also religious, and i believe in god, and that he was the creater of the universe. However i also believe that it is possible that we came from monkeys because it is proven by scientists, but i still believe in god more then any kind of scientists or proof.