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What was the Peace of Westphalia?
It ordered that the religion of a particular city or region would be based on rulers. Since that, there have been no large wars between Catholics and Protestants.
What did Galileo use to observe the solar system?
Where did Catholicism spread to?
Spain and Portugal.
Who was Isaac Newton?
An astronomer who developed his ideas about gravity and motion by observing natural phenomena and then using mathematics to describe his conclusions.
Where did Protestantism also spread to?
North America.
What did Rene Descartes believe?
That an intelligent person could understand the world using only a sense of reason.
What was Rationalism?
The idea that statements made by people should be based on reason and evidence.
What was the Scientific method?
A way to discover how nature works by making a claim about the world and then testing it in a way that shows whether or not it is true.
What theory did Nicolas Copernicus debunk?
He debunked the geocentric theory of the Universe (The theory that the Earth is at the center of the universe).
Describe the steps of the Scientific Method.
1. Observation
2. Question
3. Hypothesis
4. Experiment
5. Conclusion
6. Result