Summer Assignment Bradley Rauscher World History Honors Mr. Gutelius/Mr. Allonardo Key Terms: 1. Heliocentric: Heliocentric is a model of the solar system that represents the sun as in the middle. 2. Scientific Method: The scientific method is a method or procedure that uses precise measurements, predictions, and data to answer questions. 3. Gravity: Gravity is a force of nature that keeps things on Earth instead of floating out of the atmosphere. 4. Robert Boyle: Robert Boyle was an Irish chemist that came up with Boyle’s law. 5. Natural Law: Natural law is the physical law that states how humans make choices. 6. Social Contrast: Social contrast is an agreement between people to cooperate for their own benefits and …show more content…
Philosophies: Philosophies are studies of existence, reality, etc. 9. Encyclopedia: An encyclopedia is a book that gives a lot of information on various different topics. 10. A Vindication of the Rights of Women: One of the earliest books on women’s philosophy. 11. Laissez Faire: The theory that says that government should not intervene that much. 12. Adam Smith: Adam Smith was a Scottish philosopher who is best known for The Theory of Moral Sentiments and An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 13. Censorship: Censorship is examining books and taking bad parts out of them (like a publishing company). 14. Salons: A place where you go to, to look better or feel better. 15. Baroque: The style of architecture, music, or art from the 17th century. 16. Rococo: Architecture that is very ornamental and from the late baroque period. 17. Enlightened Despots: A system of monarchy that came from the enlightenment. 18. Frederick the Great: Frederick the Great was the 3rd king ruling over Prussia and he made a bunch of military victories. 19. Catherine the Great: She was the most popular and longest ruling queen over Russia. 20. Joseph II: He was the Holy Roman Emperor and was one of the three Enlightenment monarchs, including Catherine and Frederick the …show more content…
Throughout this book, Montesquieu touched up on other governments and even earlier governments. He described ways a government should be made up, and he centered in on one idea. This idea was to create three branches of government which were the legislative, executive, and judicial. These were to be used for different causes and could check the others power so one branch doesn’t get too powerful and disrupt its citizens liberties. About 50 years later, these ideas would soon influence a growing nation’s government. Later social philosophe, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, believed that people are naturally good, but due to society, they become bad. In later years, Rousseau put all of his ideas and thoughts into The Social Contract. In this work, Rousseau states that society and government limit people’s behavior too much that in the end it creates a negative. He believed that people need some rules to act as guidelines and such, and that these rules should only be passed by freely elected governments to enable everyone’s
The scientific method is a process that is used to answer questions and solve problems. Although there are different variations of the scientific method, it contains 5 basic steps. (1) Recognize a question or an unexplained occurrence in the natural world. Once this question has been developed examine scientific literature to determine what is already known about the subject matter. (2) Develop a hypothesis. A hypothesis is
The solar system was created 4.6 billion years ago by a gravitational collapse. A solar system is a star that has planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and meteoroids travel around it. The solar system contains eight known planets which are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune. There is around several hundred dwarf plants but only five are currently recognized. The solar system has about 181 moons which orbit around the planets in the solar system. There is also about 150 million asteroids and 3,406 comets also in the solar system.
Montesquieu, the French political writer, had developed the principle of our government. The British had been his reference when writing. Montesquieu had written, also quoted in Federalist paper number 47, “there can be no liberty where the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person… or, if the power of judging be not separated from the legislature and executive powers.” The British government structure had closely tied legislative and executive branches, as it had led to tyrannical manners. Montesquieu’s writing had influenced James Madison in several Federalist papers for making a balanced government.
Emperors continued to be crowned in the Roman Empire such Charlemagne and Otto I, the great warrior king of the Saxons. The line of Emperors he founded continued until they were overthrown by the Napoleon.
This implies that the Kepler 11 planetary system is very much like our solar system. The distance (m) of Kepler-11b
The second chapter in increasing complexity explains the solar system, and our very own earth. My project is a painting of all the planets in our solar system with the sun in the center of it all. In the days where there was no separation of religion, and state, it was thought that the earth was in the middle of it all. This “truth” was then challenged by people like Ptolemy, and later confirmed using new science, and technology like Galileo's telescope. Each planet orbits around the sun; in the order of Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. This order took billions of years to create, with each planet being formed by the most perfect circumstances.
The creation of the Solar System starts at the smallest level called the planetesimal. Planetesimal are objects that are too small to be seen or be
Erosion by water, wind and gravity cause slow evolution of Earth’s surface. Water Erosion: Rain flowing through earth’s surface. It transports particles to the oceans, then destroys the surface. Wind Erosion: Atmosphere air which transports solid substances away on earth’s surface as wind. Gravity Erosion: Soil movement in steep slopes. A shift of objects occurs, from high to low ground, due to
He believed that, prior to the Social Contract like was happy and all men were equal in the State of Nature. However, as time passed, humanity started increasing in population. People began living together in small families, then in small communities. Labour was introduced and so was leisure time. This leisure time led to invention of private property which for Rousseau constitutes humanity’s “fall from grace” out of the State of Nature; “Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains….how did this change come about?” (Rousseau, 1750) These few lines are the start of Rousseau’s social and political works “The Social Contract”. He starts off describing humanity as being born good but they are ultimately corrupted by society. (Root of Educational Theory, 2003) Potentially arguing that civilization had a corrupting influence on humans. At this time the idea of a contract between citizens and the state should govern according to the “general well”. General will is when a man surrender their rights not to a single individual but to community as a whole. This would be a mutually beneficial relationship in which the state could be removed if people willed it. (Blair, 2004) Thus, Rousseau favoured people’s sovereignty to abandon society’s hypocrisy and
Rousseau believed that human nature is good person, but the society makes man become bad. Humans have unlimited natural freedom. But when they stay together as a society, there must be some restriction of liberty and rights by making the social contract in order not to deprive the liberty and rights of other people.
In Europe, Martel the illegitimate son of the founder of the Carolingian dynasty. Had a son Pepin the short which was recognized by Pope Stephen the second as the king of the franks.
And the four of them together founded the German Empire (Kaiser Wilhelm 1). The empire Wilhelm became emperor of (Historical Boys’ Royal Costume). When Wilhelm became Emperor of Germany he was able to unite the loosely joined North German Confederation with the German Empire. He also constantly modernized Germany making it
The solar system consists of the Sun at the center and the planets revolving around it. In
In our solar system we see many characteristics be brought out by the sun and the planets. Five of the main properties that will be discussed are geology, chemical composition of the interior and atmosphere, interior structure, orbital time.speed, and distance from the Sun, and comparative planetology.
Scientific method is an organized way to find an answer. It is a logical and rational order of steps that scientists and psychologists rely on to give them a confidant answer. Although scientific method does not always give a valid answer, but it 's a way to make sure they are not using bias conclusion and has less of a chance for a faulty conclusion.