Film lesson: "Mountains of the Moon"

In the movie the Europeans had a hard time going through Africa. It was a long trip and supplies were running low. It also was very hot and people were thirsty. They came upon some water but it was diseased. When they found the first lake some people drank the water and start dying.

The Europeans name the source of the nile river Lake Victoria. That was their Queens. Its weird to name the third largest lake in the world and located in Africa after a queen from Europe. The African most likely dislike the name.

Africans werent up to date in technology back then. They were really poor. The Europeans had many advantages over them with all their technology. They also had more knowlegde than the Africans. The Europeans had the greater advantage over the Africans and conquered them. They were able to conquer them very easliy because of their weapons. Europeans had machines guns and other weapons like that while African only had spears.

Karl Marx and The Industrial Revolution

Karl Marx was known as a 19Th century revolutionary. His ideas were influential and other countries through the years practiced them, but not in the same form Marx invented. Karl marx was a social scientist, philosopher, historian and revolutionary. Though ignored by many scholars, his ideas were accepted in the socialist movements after his death in 1883. His idea of communism was inspiration from the idustrial revolution. He thought that since there were more workers than owners, the workers would get tired of the low wages and start a revolution and take over.

Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

The Region of Terror was a period of violence that occured. People who were agianst the state would get executed. Max Robespierre started the Reign of Terror. He ruled France like a dictaor and would execute many people. He even executed the queen. People eventually got tired of him cutting peoples head off and formed a conspiracy against him and he was soon arrested.

The French Revolution

1.)a. Many people in france were critical about the nobitliy because they were the richest and didnt have to pay taxes.
b. The kings ruled absolutely and the people had to par 50% for them.
c.The clergy only had to pay 2% taxes compared to the third estate. Also they can become important officers in the army.

2.) In 1789 the French peasants would have grumbled about the crop failures .

3.) the cartoonist was probably say that the life the peasants were horrible compared to the first and second estates.

4.) The life of the peasants were hard. All they did was wrok for the King and several lords. Their lives were not easy.

5.) Yes, I think , from source c, that the poor were the ones with the lowest income.

6.) The french peasants would be most influenced by Rousseasu because it was about how the french peasants were treated and how everyone should be equal.

7.) The pamphlet was most likely banned because the French government didnt want to lose their power.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

Jefferson was influenced by John Lock's ideas. The rights Jefferson was talking about in The Declaration of Independence was Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Gives right to the people to alter and/or abolish any form of government that is destructive and institute a new government. The government comes and gets its power from the people.

Copernicus and the trial of Galieo

There was a theory called Heliocentrism and it was said that the sun is in the center on the solar system. This theory was was fullly presented by an astronomer Nicolous Copernicus, was later elaberated by Johannes Kelper and Galileo defended it. It bacame a huge debate.

There was also the old geocentric theory that the earth was place at the center of the solar system. This theory came from the Scentific Revolution. Nicolous Copernicus soon replaced this theory with the heliocentric theory saying that Earth was just one of the planets orbiting the sun.

The Catholic Church had put Galieo on trial because he promoted to idea of Earth not being the center of the solar system in a book. Galieo believed that the Sun was the center of the Solar System while the Catholic Church believed that Earth was the Center of the Earth.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

The scientific method are steps used to do experiments and to prove prove theorys. This method can be used for many things. And example would be when Aristotle said heavy objects with fall faster that lighter objects but Galileo proved him worng. Galileo did an experiment on the Leaning Tower of Pisa, he droppped two rocks with different weights and proved that objects with the same weight will fall at the same speed.

Evolution vs Creation

To me they are both right. I think in the beginning Creation was right because its basically what created Evolution.

Evolution is when thing envolve. Like the world back then is way different than the world now. Evolution is science. Things mutated. Its how all the animal and humans are here today. We dont know exactly where everyhting came from and thats where creation comes in. The thing that were created have envolved. Creation is a religious belief. Thats why peole fight over Evolution and Creation. Its like a battle between scince and religion.