Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

The year 1793, a very horrible time in France. They just had their revolution, and everybody was going mad. This was the time that many people didn't want to loose their power, or people who wanted it back. That all triggered to the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was a period of violence that occurred fifteen months after the French Revolution , which was conflict between rival political parties, the Girondins and the Jacobins. Estimates of how many were killed were widely, from 16,000 to 40,000 deaths,in many cases, records were not kept.

French government created the Committee of Public Safety , which was created on September 6th 1793 and was dominated by Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre wanted to completely wipe out the whole idea of "monarchy." He even took off the kings, queens, and jokers off common household items, like a deck of cards for example. He was the dictator during the terror. He exucuted people who didnt agree on his ideas, sort of a hitler figure. He closed down most churches at well. The exucations were carried out by the Girondins.

The French Revolution

1) The people in France were critical of the nobility because they had most of the property, got most of the money and paid the least amount of taxes. They thought it was really unfair. They were also critcal about the king because he had full, complete power and he used a feudal system. They also did'nt like them because he taxed them so much. They were critical about the clergy because they recieved most of the money then mostly every body in France, and they only paid about 2% of France's taxes.

2)A Frence peasent could have grumbled about how he was not able to hunt or fish on the estates.

3)The point that the cartoonist is trying to make is that basicly they treated the French peasents like a donkey, a slave. The caption under means that the peaseants reallky can't take it anymore they had enough they grew tired of being treated so poorly.

4) In Source B it is clearly stated that even though the peasents had close to nothing they still needed to give that too. They were treated horribly. It seems like it keeps on getting worse and worse for them. Even though they have a small portion of land, they need to give the lords double of what they dont have.

5) Sources A,B and C all do show how the poor truely dispised the rich, for doing whatever they are doing. It also shows how unfair they were being treated. They all say that the minority of the people make way more then the majority.

6) In source D, the writer most likely got his idea from John Locke. You can tell he was influenced by him because he talks about Liberty, the way that man should be free and make his own laws and not be treated like crap.

7)This was most likely banned in 1775 becasuse of the King and all of its nobles and lords. They banned it because they knew if the people found out about it he will loose all of his power. The lords, nobles, and clergy banned it because they would loose everything they have and be equal, and they didnt want to loose their power or wealth.

John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

In the 2nd paragraph of the United States Constitution it clearly states that we all deserve certain rights. Some of those rights include life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. He also states that we have the right to tear down the government if we are treated with Tyranny again. If that does happen us, we the people have the right to create a new government from the beginning.

Also according to Jefferson, we the people have the "power." It says that "That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, —" That mainly came from Locke who believed that the people should govern, not totally be taken control of and being treated horribly. Another place the government gets its power is from the house of representaties, which is basicly voted upon. In other words this country is ran by its people, and its "leaders."

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

For a long period of time a lot of different people believed that the Earth was the center of the universe. That was called the geocentric theory. It was created by a bunch of scientist that believed that the Earth was the center of the universe and that everything revolves around the Earth. The other theory said was called Heliocentrism. That theory stated that everything revolves around the sun. The theory that was created first was the geocentric theory. The theory that came out of the scientific revolution was the Heliocentrism theory.

In the older times, people's opinions could basicly put them to death. The Roman Catholic Church put Galileo on trial and on house arrest becuase he believed in the Heliocentrism theory. On the other hand the Roman Catholic Church really disagreed. Even though they really didnt put him to jail they had him under house arrest and when they did take him in he was in apartments rather then a jail cell. The Catholic church put him on trial because they disagreed with him because he believed that the all the planents revolve around the sun. On the other hand, the church totally disagreed. He eventually died in his house, where he spent the rest of his life after the trial.

Scientific Revolution: The Scientific Method

The scientific method is a method used to prove and to help to find the truth out from science. For example the steps you need tot take to use this method is first create a theory, or think of something you want to prove or disprove. After you find your question, you need to make a hypothesis, which is an educated guess of what you think will happen when you perform this expirement. After you have completed the hypothesis then you have to perform the experiment, in the meantime you should observe every thing you do, carefully paying attention to the steps you took. After you have completed your expirement then you see if your hypothesis was correct or not. If it is incorrect then you continue trying to figure out your hypothesis, if your hypothesis is correct then your hypothesis is succesful.

An experiment that uses the scientific method is for example the expiremnt that Aristotle said where he stated that girls have less teeth the boys. To use the scientific method with this expirement first you state the hypothesis that you think for example men have more teeth then woman. Then after you state that you check three different men and three different woman. When you get proved wrong its good because you know it and its proven that they have the same number of teeth. That is the right way to do an expirement not just guess its true without even trying to prove his hypothesis.

Evolution vs. Creation

The theory of evolution and Creationism are both two different theorys of how we, the humans came to this earth. The theory of evolution states that we all the living things on this earth are related. That we are almost the same to bananas, monkeys, fish, and all of nature. Charles Darwin also stated that multi complex orginisms came from orginisms that werent that complex. He thinks that we came from the apes, because we have similar structures.

On the other hand, Creationism is viewed in a more religious way. It is said that we all came from God. The Genesis has the story of how we came. It tells us that we came from God. In the early 1900's, the United States had gotten alot of people into trouble for teaching it in public school. A teacher got arrested for teaching it and it was banned to be taught in public school. They werent aloud to even have text books from the theory of evolution inside.

In my opinion i agree more with Creationism. I think it is the most logical thing. It was also taught for many more years and people followed it for a very long time. It also makes more sense because there is always a stronger figure in your life that created you. It was also written in the bible and many books that said that we were created from God.