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Monotheistic Religions
Renaissance and Reformation
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Universal Revolution
Developments of Scientific Revolution
100
The Jewish holy book.
What is the Torah?
100
The most powerful institution in the European middle ages.
What is the Roman Catholic Church?
100
A problem or question arising from an observation.
What is the first step of the scientific revolution?
100
This is a theory that had the sun at the center of the universe.
What is heliocentric theory?
100
He stated "I think, therefore I am," and helped develop the scientific method.
Who is Rene Descartes?
200
A set of written code of laws that created greater equality because laws could not be manipulated to favor the rich and upper classes.
What are the Ten Commandments?
200
The French word for "rebirth," and a 1300 cultural movement that started in Italy.
What is Renaissance?
200
A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
What is the scientific method?
200
He reasoned that the earth, stars, and other heavenly bodies revolved around the sun.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
200
Every object in the universe attracts every other object based on the mass of those objects and the distance between them.
What is the definition of Newton's law of universal gravitation?
300
This religion believed in tolerance to other groups, specifically other religious groups.
What is Islam?
300
A monk and teacher that challenged the Church's practice of selling pardons for sins.
Who is Martin Luther?
300
This is a theory that had the earth at the center of the universe.
What is geocentric theory?
300
The field where some of the earliest challenges to accepted scientific thinking took place.
What is astronomy?
300
This man connected the ideas of Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus through the discovery of the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
Islam's Prophet.
Who is Muhammad?
400
A branch of Christianity that believed that individuals could interpret the Bible for themselves, and that salvation came through faith.
What is Protestantism?
400
This was a movement that started a new way of thinking about the natural world.
What is the scientific revolution?
400
A brilliant mathematician that came up with the natural law that planets revolve around the sun in elliptical motions not circular ones.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
The British physician who introduced a vaccine to prevent smallpox, the first ever vaccination.
Who is Edward Jenner?
500
A central theme to democracy that states that every person has their own opinions and preferences, and that these people should have a say in the government that rules them.
What is individualism?
500
A religious reform movement that began in the 16th century.
What is Reformation?
500
Exploration of previously unknown lands that led Europeans to question previously held truths, the spread of knowledge due to the printing press, and advances in astronomy and math due to exploration.
What are causes of the scientific revolution?
500
This man used a telescope to explore the planets and stars, and supported Copernicus' heliocentric model through his books Starry Messanger and Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (much to the dismay of the Catholic Church).
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
One of the most important scientific books ever written, written by Isaac Newton in which he describes his ideas on gravity.
What is The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy?