Thursday, May 13, 2010

Galileo Film and Essay Study Questions Part 1

1. What institution did Galileo come into conflict with?
A: the Church
2. What was the popular belief about the sun and the earth at the time of Galileo?
A: The sun supposedly moved around the Earth
3. The apparent movement of the sun was both a calender and a clock at the time of Galileo.
4. What subject did Galileo leave medicine to study instead?
A: Mathematics
5. What did Galileo invent from the lenses of the spectacles?
A: Telescope
6. What was one of the first practical uses for the "spyglass" Galileo invented?
A: Look for enemy ships
7. What "heavenly" body did Galileo first study and chart?
A: The Moon
8. What planet did Galileo first study? What details did he find?
A: Jupiter. He saw four brilliant little stars and then realized that they were moons
9. Why did Galileo become famous in Europe shortly after the 1600s?
A: He wrote a best selling book
10. What view of Copernicus did Galileo adapt?
A:He thought that the sun might be at the center of the universe
11. What was the second planet for Galileo to study?
A:Venus
12. Describe the opposition that Galileo encountered?
A:Maditchi, other philosophers, and the church
13. Who was Giodarno Bruno? What happened to him?
A:A priest and a colt babbler including being a heretic
14. Who was Cardinal Bellarmine? What was he in charge of?
A: The cardinal who killed Bruno and was in charge of heretics. He had heard about Galileo
15. What list were the writings of Copernicus placed on by the Inquisition?
A:Index of prohibited books
16. What name did Galileo's daughter take at the convent? Why?
A: Sister Maria Che lest, it was a name given to her by God

Friday, May 7, 2010

Video Notes: Exploration

1. 1532 the New World and the Old World collides
2. The Incas are attacked by Pazarro
3. Europeans conquered most of the world.
4. It was supposedly the geography of the New and Old worlds that helped the New World prevail
5. For two years and group of spanish conquestidors traveled in the Americas.
6. They were mercaneries
7. Perzarro had claimed a large fortune in North america
8. Perzarro was a retired army captain
9. He was heading south to look for more gold
10. Perzarro was looking for gold and glory so he could be famous
11. They were the first Europeans to climb the Andes and go that far into South America
12. Finally the reach the edge of the might Inca Empire
13. The Incas had never seen white men before and did not know of the danger
14. By the 1540s the Inca empire stretched from Chile to the top of south America
15. At the time the Spanish king controlled two thirds of Europe
16. Trujilla was the home of Perzarro
17. There is a statue of him in the town square
18. His house is now a museum
19. Pezarro is a great example of European conquest
20. A prefessor argues that the more crops a nation had the more good farmers they had
21. The animals spread into south america and caused a great explotion of settlement there.
22. Europeans also had great animals.
23. More animals meant more food and easier crops.
24. They helped them make a powerful nation
25. Because of their geography, Incas were never as productive as European conquerers
26. Horses also aloud Europeans to control their land
27. The conquestidors rode their horses, clutching the horse with their legs and holding onto the reigns with one hand, much different from the European knight form
28. It was the dominant style of riding at the time in Spain
29. News of the conquistidors (Who they thought were Gods) reached the emperor by a royal messenger
30. When the emperor hears about the gods, he choses not to had them killed
31. He invited them to join him in Wuattinata (Or whatever!)
32. Wuatatawualpa thought that they were just strange humans
33. He didn't realize that they were armed with some of the best weapons in the world
34. Spain had the best army in Europe
35. For more then 700 years the Spainyards had been at war
36. To servive yu had to keep up with the latest army weapons
37. Gun power was originally from China but in Europeans they became weapons
38. The guns were terrible and took a long time to reload and was aimless
39. But the Incas weren't even far enough to know to come in when they were reloading
40. They real power of the conquistidors was their steal swords
41. The Incas were stil trying to make bronze farming tools
42. People started working with metal 7000 years ago
43. Rapiers represent a very high point in mental technology
44. It's metally hard enough to take a point
45. They were originally just dueling swords
46. They started to begin with to wear them with their regular clothes
47. It became the choice of weapon for any gentle man
48. They conquistidors were told to meet Atwualpa in the hills.
49. When they got their there was the Inca army of 8000 in the hills was waiting for them
50. Pezarro sent a group of his best horsemen into the heart of the Inca camp to talk to Atawualpa
51. Atawualpa just exploded and threatened them. So the conquistidors went back to camp
52. It was 168 soldiers against 80000 Incas
53. The conquistidors decided to make a surprise attack the next day
54. 12 years earlier, Cortez had taken the Aztec empire
55. The Incas couldn't read or write
56. Paper and utensils helped spred the concept of writing
57. The europeans also invented the printing press
58. The people of the Andes were isolated from writing or other animal or invention concepts
59. This gave them an advantage
60. Pezarro won