Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

"The Reign of Terror" was a period of violence that happened fifteen months after the French Revolution. Maximilien Robespierre was one of the twelve members of "The Reign of Terror." The twelve members including Max Robespierre wanted to raise new armies, eliminate counterrevolutionary elements and supply food for the armies and and the cities.

"The Reign of Terror" happened because the people in France didn't get what they wanted. So, Robespierre, his members, and the army were still fighting for rights and a new government. They went against the King and the clergy. The nobles and the clergy were losing power. From the Reighn of Terror, 16,ooo to 40,ooo people were killed. Since the people of France didn't listen to the nobles or clergy, the nobles and clergy were taking action to use the guillotine for those people going against them.

The people of France were scared that a lot of people were getting killed. They fought against the Robespierre and the army he put together. The people took a lot of courage and didn't fear no more. At the end for The Reign of Terror, the people of France finally took control and cut Max Robespierre's head off.

The French Revolution

1. Many people in France were critical of the clergy and the nobility because they had privileges that the third estate could not. The clergy, nobility, and the king were the richest. The clergy and the nobility did not have to pay taxes and they were also the only members in society who could not hold positions of importance such as officers in the army. 

2. A French peasant might have grumbled about in 1789 is the high taxes, the food prices got high, they were forced to do military service, they could not hunt or fish on nobles' estates, and peasants had to use the lord's mill,  oven and wine press, and pay for them.

3.  Looking at Source A, the point I think the cartoonist was making was that the peasants hope for a better change than having to serve the upper classes. They don't want to be on the feet of the feudal lords and the clergy. The cartoonist is trying to say that the peasants want to be doing things they thing is better for everyone.

4. The author of Source B describes the lives of French peasants by how the taxes were killing the peasants and being more poor by not having to give what the taxes want. Even though the peasants complain, they have to find a way to pay their taxes by giving away their animals and other foods.

5. By studying Sources A, B, and C, these sources does explain why poor people in France resented the rich because they didn't like how each estate had their own thing especially when the first and second estate were rich and the third estate were poor and paid higher taxes.

6. The person that would be most influenced by his words is John Locke, because they both agree with each other that people should be equal. People should be treated by rights and not by being on the knees of the powerful people.

7. The pamphlet in Source D was banned in 1775 because the top estates like the king, clergy, and the nobility didn't want people to know. They were afraid that the people would go against them and they would lose their power.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

     John Locke is the most famous person out of all the Enlightenment thinkers. The ideas of John Locke influenced Thomas Jefferson which helped him write the Constitution. In the second paragraph of the Constitution, Thomas Jefferson is talking about that we should all be equal. If the form of government becomes powerful, the people have the right to abolish it. The people want a government that's good and organized so that it would be safe and secure. The government comes  from a powerful group that they organized themselves to control the people by their laws. The government's powers didn't come from the people but they kept it from themselves and chose a government without the peoples votes. John Locke did a good thing writing about these ideas and helping the people with the Declaration of Independence.

Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo

The two theories of the Solar System are helicentrism and geocentrism theories. The heliocentric, "is the theory that the Sun is at the center of the Solar System." Heliocentrism opposes the geocentric theory. The geocentric theory is that the Earth is at the middle of the Solar System. In the 16th century, a Polish mathmetician and astronomer named Copernicus presenting that the heliocentric theory is correct and even modeling the heliocentric. Copernicus defended Galileo that the Sun was the at the Center of the Solar System.
The theory that came first in the Scientific Revolution was the geocentric theory that was made by Copernicus. Scientific observers were surprised that their conlusions did not match up to the real truth about the world around them. Later in the 17th century, there was progress with the subject of algebra, trigonometry, and geometry that these subjects linked to the numeric values of, "Rene Descartes."
The trial of Galileo is that people didn't believe in his theory. After hearing that Galileo believed that the Sun was at the center of the Solar System, the Catholic Church put him on trial for not believing that the Earth was at the center. The Church examined his observations and models and compare it with the bible of the old and new testament. The Church wanted him to be in pain and death for his ideas in the doctrine and scriptures.

The Scientific Revolution

     In the 1500s people thought that the planets revolved around the earth. It is actually that all the planets revolves around the earth, so that means that the sun is at the center of the universe. A scientist named Galileo tested Aristoltle theory and he was wrong that bigger objects fall down faster than smaller objects. Galileo proved that bigger objects and smaller objects fall down at the same speed. They called this part of science the scientific method.

     The scientific method, " is the process by which scientists, collectively and over time, endeavor to construct an accurate representation of the world. The scientific method has four steps that explains how to do an experiment. The first step is to do observations, the second step is to form a hypothesis to be ruled out, also the third step that uses the hypothesis and predicts what would happen next. The last fourth step performs the experiments.

Evolution vs. Creationism

Evolution is a theory by Darwin. This theory of evolution is said that species were descended from ancestors. It is creatures that are genetically mutated by a process called "natural selection." "Natural selection" is advantages that make species compete in the wild. This changes animal population to breed. The theory of evolution is in the subject of molecular biology.
Creationism is a religious belief that all life, humanism, Earth, and the universe were created by a deity. Creationism's evidence was found in the Genesis. The Genesis rejects the theory of evolution. Creation is supported by religious people that believes deity. In the 1960s evolution was ommitted fro school textbooks. It's believed that the origin of the universe and all life was by creation.
I believe in creationism because I'm a Catholic and I believe in God. I believe that all life, Earth, and the universe was created by deity. I don't believe in evolution because it's just a theory and most theories aren't correct. Evolution shows many evidence but I'm going to stick with creation because it has evidence that shows that it is more right than evolution.

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