Robespierre and the Reign of Terror

The reign of Terror lasted from 1973 to 1794. Just about 18,000 people died because of the guillotine. Max Robespierre had alot to do with the Reign of Terror. No one could call Robespierre anything at all because they would be automatically executed on the guillotine.

French Revolution

The French revolution lasted about 10 years, during this time King Louis XVI was the king of France. France was very low on money because they had just borrowed money in order to help the united states also revolt against Great Britain. King Louis XVI had a special castle made for him at Versailles in order for him to be away from all the people at Paris, because at this time Paris was very overcrowded. One of the main problems of the French revolution was that the rich people such as the nobles and priests paid very little tax and did not receive any punishment if they did anything wrong.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

Galileo Galilei was born in 1564, from a early age Galileo showed interest in science. At the age of 19 he created the pendulum. After a few years Galileo was known through out Europe as a scientist. While working at the university of Pudua, he showed great interest in the Copernican theory. the Copernican theory was made by Nicholas Copernicus. Copernicus wrote the book "Revolutions of the Celestial Orbs" which stated his idea that the sun was the center of the universe. However the church told everyone that the earth was the center of the universe, and no one had the guts to go against the church because they might be put on trial. That is what happened to Galileo, he was placed on trial for going against the sayings of the church. Galileo was forced to say that the earth was the center of the universe and Nicholas Copernicus was wrong. Galileo has been referred to as "The Father of modern physics".

Scientific Method

The scientific method is used to answer questions. Many people answer questions by what they see or past experiences. However scientist use the scientific method in order to answer the question scientifically. The scientific method has four steps. They are observation, forming a hypothesis, the use of the hypothesis, and finally the experiment being tested.

Evolution vs. Creation

The main person behind the thoery of evolution is Charles Darwin. Charles got his theory of evolution from little things he noticed about life. He noticed that species have a great fertility, and the offspring can grow to adulthood. Most people see the argument of Evolution vs. Creation as Religion vs. Science. Both of these theories have their weak points. If humans were created, who created them? Also if we did evolve, what did we evolve from? Just because human DNA matches 92% or so with monkeys does not mean that we did evolve from monkeys. If humans did evolve from monkeys, how come monkeys no longer evolve. Theres no clear view on how humans ended up on planet earth, however everyone has their own theories.

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