Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Simon Bolivar and Latin American Revolutions

Simon Bolivar is so famous for liberating much of south america from spanish rule in the 19th century.With this accomplishment he became one of latin america's greatest heroes. Bolivar is a country name aftere him because he helped them gain liberate with the help of Jose de San Martin.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007

Robespierre and The Reign of Terror

"The reign of terror" came first because Max Robespierre's was afried of the treainers. So Robespierre sent everyone who seemed like a treainer their."The reign of terror"was a machine that cuts peoples heads off.These executions were carried out by all family's of the one being executed were there even the childern.

French Revolution: Social Causes

The causes ofthe french revolutionwere the collision of powers of financial debt and the long standing political differences in the government.The three estates were french people divided into three groups. First estate wielded great power affairs of france. Second estate included crats,or nobility. That meant not having to work for a living. But some of them lived in fram houses.Also they had to live by the value of loyalty and caurage.Third estate include all of the first and second estate. They were diffcult lives.What really triggeredthe revolution was the difference of government.

Copernicus and the Trial of Galileo

First came the geocentric theory which was from the bible that the erath was at the center of the universe.The heliocentric came second which was that the sun was in the centre of the universe.Galileo was put on trial by the catholic church because he went against the catholic church teaching. Saying that the sun did not revoled around the erath.The catholic church said and teched that the sun did revoled around the erath which was not ture.