Activity 1

By andreaalegria
  • 1550

    Scientific Revolution

    Scientific Revolution
    -Galileo Galilei (1591) Demonstrates the properties of gravity
    - Francois Viete (1591) Invents analytical trigonometry
    - Nicolaus Copernicus (1543) On the revolution of heavenly bodies

  • Enlightenment

    Enlightenment
    Intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that gained wide assent in the West and that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.
    The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica. (6-27-2017). Enlightenment . 8-17-2017, de Britannica Sitio web: https://www.britannica.com/event/Enlightenment-European-history

  • American revolution

    American revolution
    1601-1800
    Europe
    3 characteristics
    - Red Coats: British soldiers who fought against the colonists
    -Loyalists: Colonists who supported British rule
    -Patriots: American colonists who supported independence from Great Britain.
    3 important issues
    -In the Revolutionary War, the weapons were heavy,
    -The British wore red uniforms, and the colonists wore whatever clothes they had.
    - War was fought to give American people a chance to govern themselves, and to be free people.

  • French Revolution

    French Revolution
    1789-1799 The French Revolution was a period of ideological, political and social upheaval in the political history of France and Europe as a whole, during which the French polity, previously an absolute monarchy with feudal privileges for the aristocracy and Catholic clergy,
    Representative government vs. authoritarianism
    Stronger, further centralized state with a larger, more effective and more intrusive administration.
    http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/French_Revolution

  • Napoleonic Empire

    Napoleonic Empire
    The first Napoleonic empire was the largest, most institutionally uniform European state in modern times. Despite the transient nature and short duration of Napoleon's personal rule—as first consul of France (1799–1804) and as emperor (1804–1815)—his empire laid the foundations of modern Europe.
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/history/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/napoleonic-empire