Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar was famous because he was one of South America's greatest generals. His victories over the Spaniards won independence for Bolivia, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. He helped defeat Spaniards Boyar in 1819 for independence. After a meeting in 1822 with another great liberator, Bolivar became dictator of Peru. His army won a victory over the Spaniards at Auacucho in 1824, which needed Spanish power in South America. Upper Peru became a separate state, named Bolivia in Bolivar's honor, in 1825. Simon was influenced for his quest to a revolution when he returned to Venezuela, Bolivar joined the group of patriots that seized Caracas in 1810 and proclaimed independence from Spain. He went to Great Britain in search of aid, but could get only a promise of British neutrality. When he returned to Venezuela, and took command of a patriot army, he recaptured Caracas in 1813 from the Spaniards.

Robespierre and the Reign of Terror

Robespierre became the dominant member. Their aim was to eliminate all internal counterrevolutionary elements, to raise new armies, and to assure food supplies for the armies and cities. Some of their measures were demanded by the people of Paris, whose support was essential. he reign of terror was a 10 month period during the French revolution when struggles between the rival factions led to many conflicts.The terror took the lives of about 25,000 people and in the last month 1,900 executions took place.A man named Robespierre who was a political leader and one of the most influential figures of the French revolution and the main man of the reign of terror.
His executions were carried out with the guillotine.

The French Revolution: Social Causes

One cause for the French revolution was because France was bankrupt and no one really was paying taxes and they was making the peaseants contribute more knowing they didn't have nothing.Years of feudal oppression and fiscal mismanagement contributed to a French society that was ripe for revolt. It was the first estate, the second estate, known as the the clergy and the nobility and the third estate. The third estate felt used because they were fed up with their mistreatment, activists and pamphleteers of the Third Estate took to the streets in protest. What really trigged the revolution was the national assembly which consist of making a new constitution.

July 14 1789 mob of Parisian citizens storms Bastille prison and confiscates weapons. The enlightenment thinkers influenced the revolution because there ideas that the had were making the French people question there government.

Copernicus and the trail of Galileo

explain the two theories of the solar system; the geocentric and the heliocentric. Which theory came first, and which theory came out of the scientific revolution?
Then describe the trial of Galileo. Why was the Catholic Church putting him on trial? What did Galileo believe in and what did the Catholic church believe in? Geocentric:if the universe is the disproven theory that the Earth is at the center of the universe and the Sun and other objects go around it. Belief in this system was common in ancient Greece. Heliocentric:is the theory that the sun is at the center of the Universe and/or the Solar System. The geocentric theory came first and the heliocentric came out of the scientific revolution. Galileo Galilei faced trial before the Holy Office for promoting in a book his idea that the earth did not sit at the center of the universe. In the 1633 trial of Galileo Galilei, two worlds come into cosmic conflict. Galileo's world of science and humanism collides with the world of Scholasticism and absolutism that held power in the Catholic Church. The Catholic church put Galileo on trail because he had violated the 1616 (so-called) injunction against teaching, holding, or writing about Copernican theory.

Scientific Revolution:Scientific Method

Scientists during the Scientific Revolution relied on the "Scientific Method" to gain knowledge and information. Explain, in your own words, the Scientific Method. And give an example of an experiment that uses the Scientific Method. The scientific method was an idea that scientists made up inorder to get there own conclusions to there experiements.Aristotle, the Greek philosopher, stated that males and females have different number of teeth, without bothering to check; he then provided long arguments as to why this is the way things ought to be). This method is unreliable: arguments cannot determine whether a statement is correct, this requires proofs.

Evolution Vs Creation

Read the following links about the two theories of evolution and creation. Explain, in your own words, each of the two theories. Creation is the belief that humanity, life , the Earth, and the universe were created in their original form. Evolution is more of thought that all life is related from a common ancestor. Evolution belief is that non-living and living things are related some how some way.