Revolutions
A sudden or complete change in the way people live, work, think, or govern.
What is a revolution?
An economic revolution changing the distribution of land and crops grown.
What is the Agricultural revolution?
A cultural change in the way people thought and advances in knowledge.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
Kant defined this cultural revolution as a time when people start thinking on their own rather than relying on others to tell them what to think.
What is the Enlightenment?
A change in how a group is governed or the systems in charge.
Landowners claimed private land and displaced peasant farmers.
The sun is in the center of the universe
What is heliocentrism?
This Enlightenment philosopher believed women should get access to education and be treated equally to men.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
A change in resources available or occupations.
What is an economic revolution?
Charles Townshend started this method of planting different crops in succession.
What is crop rotation?
A process for discovering something based on inductive reasoning involving a hypothesis.
What is the Scientific Method?
This Enlightenment philosopher wanted to reform the criminal justice system.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
A change in thoughts, ideas, or beliefs.
What is a cultural revolution?
This person changed animal husbandry and introduced selective animal breeding.
Who is Robert Bakewell?
This person discovered the laws of gravity and contributed to the invention of calculus.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This Enlightenment philosopher believed in the separation of powers in the government, greatly influencing the American constitution.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
These are some positive and negative effects of the Agricultural Revolution.
Options:
Good:
Greatly improved food production, Fewer people starved, Population grew, Economy became more efficient and productive
Bad:
Enclosure disempowered the lower classes, Many peasant farmers displaced, Lower classes became poorer, less independent, and turned into wage-laborers, Empowered landowners exclusively to control land and profits
This person dissected bodies and greatly advanced understanding of human anatomy.
Who is Andreas Vesalius?
This Enlightenment philosopher famously said, "I think, therefore I am." Cogito ergo sum.
Who is Rene Descartes?