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Part 20: Revolutions
ANSWER KEY EXEMPLAR
Part 20.1: The Scientific Revolution
Causes of the Scientific Revolution
 
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Answer the following questions in your spiral notebooks:
During the Middle Ages, would “natural philosophers” base knowledge on observavtion of the natural world or rely on ancient authorities?

Renaissance humanists had access to newly rediscovered texts that disagreed with Aristotle and the Bible about the nature of the world.  Name one of these writers.

Name four new technologies developed during the later Renaissance that helped spur scientific thinking.

Were mathematicians using letters to represent unknown quantities during this time?

What new technology did John Cook use to map out the coastline of Australia and chart the Pacific Ocean?

Regarding the instrument John Cook used to map the coastline of Australia, what function did it serve?

What did the printing press allow people to do that helped initiate the Scientific Revolution?

Name something else going on in the time period are we discussing now?].

Did the United States of America already exist during this time?

The Scientific Revolution
 
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Answer the following questions in your spiral notebooks:
What two books started the Scientific Revolution?

What does geocentric universe mean?

What does heliocentric universe mean?

Which one did the Catholic Church say was true?

Who was the First Century Greek philosopher who taught the geocentric model of the universe?

Who was the Renaissance mathematician who proposed the heliocentric model of the universe?

Who was the German mathematician who first recognized the orbits of the planets were elliptical and not circular?

Who was the first person in human history to see the mountains and craters on the moon, the phases of Venus, that Jupiter had moons, and that Saturn had rings?

How did he do this?

Galileo’s observations disproved one aspect of Ptolemy’s universe by showing for the first time which characteristic of heavenly bodies?

Who discovered gravity, the laws of motion, the nature of light, and invented calculus?

Who wrote the first accurate book on human anatomy?

How did he do this?

Who discovered that blood completes a circuit through the body?

Who proposed that elements were substances that cannot be broken down into simpler substances?

Who first discovered oxygen, hydrogen, and the formula of water?

Women's Contributions
 
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Answer the following questions in your spiral notebooks:
What was Margaret Cavendish's argument about science? What percent of all German astronomers were women?

Philosophy & Reason
 
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Answer the following questions in your spiral notebooks:
Which philosopher is noted for his statement “I think, therefore I am”?

What is rationalism?

What is the systematic procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence?

Who was the person who developed the scientific method?

What is inductive reasoning?

History
World History
Unit Four: The New World
Part 20: Revolutions
Part 20.2: The Enlightenment
Part 20.3: The Enlightenment Spreads
Part 20.4: The American Revolution
Standards, Objectives, and Vocabulary
 
Unit One: The Prehistoric World
Unit Two: The Ancient World
Unit Three: The Medieval World
Unit Four: The New World
Unit Five: The imperial World
Unit Six: The World at War
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Part 20:
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Goals & Objectives
of the Crash Course videos:
By the end of the course, you will be able to:

*Identify and explain historical developments and processes
*Analyze the context of historical events, developments, and processes and explain how they are situated within a broader historical context
*Explain the importance of point of view, historical situation, and audience of a source
*Analyze patterns and connections among historical developments and processes, both laterally and chronologically through history
*Be a more informed citizen of the world 

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