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

Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Questions for the Map

1. Which European country controlled the sea routes heading Eastword from Europe to Aisa?
A: Portugal.

2. What might have been their motivations to find a sea route to Aisa?
A: Well it could be the fact that most ppl could get robbed or beat up on their way to Aisa so they wanted to find a safer way. Not to mention the fact that it might've been a little bit shorter of a trip.

3. If one of Spain's motivation for exploration was to find sea routes to Aisa why might Christopher Columbus have sailed west instead of East?
A: Well, there was sort of land in the way if they went East so...

4. What was Spain's reward for sending explorers to North America?
A: They found a new country and got to name it and claim it! HAHA that rhyms!

5. Why might countries like England, France, and the Netherlands have sent Explorers to North America?
A: Probably to claim new land, new riches, and new get aways

6. What might have been some of the effects of this exploration on people living in these areas?
A: Well they probably went over to build new houses and have a new chance at life

Tuesday, April 13, 2010

L.O.D.s 30:

Reformation: a histroric movement from the early 1500s to the 1600s that led to the start of many new Christian churches.

Protestants: originally people who broke away from (“protested against”) the Catholic Church

Indulgences: a grant by the Catholic Church that released a person from punishment for sins

Simony: The buying and selling of spiritual or holy things

Papacy: The office, or position, of pope as head of the Catholic Church

Heresy: beliefs that contradict the official teachings of a religion or church; one who holds such beliefs is called heretic

Doctrine: the official teachings of a religion or church

Mystic: a person who is devoted to a religion and has spiritual experiences

Denomination: a particular religious grouping with a larger; for example, the Lutheran church is a denomination of Christianity

New Testament: the second part of the Christian Bible, which includes the Gospels and other writings of the early Christian church

Old Testament: The first part of the Christian Bible, corresponding to the Jewish Bible

Calvinism: a Protestant sect of the Chiristian faith

John Wycliffe: a scholar in Egland and one of the first of the early reformers

Jan Hus: a priest in Bohemia who critized the vast wealth of the Roman Catholic Church

Catherine of Siena: an Italian mystic

Desiderius Erasmus: a humanist from Holland

Atlas Activite:

1a. Martin Luther was a Catholic monk.

1b. In 1517 Martin Luther began a movement to reform the Roman Catholic Church that became known as the Reformation.

1c. Protestant is the name for most non-Catholic and non-Orthodox Christian church.

1d. The only book title visible in picture A is the Bible.

2a. London: Anglican Church is founded

2b. Rome: Roman Inquisition is created.

2c. Wittenberg: Reformation Begins

2d. Geneva: Calvinism is founded

3a. Geneva: Calvinist

3b. France: Calvinist, Mix of Christians, and Roman Catholic

3c. Dublin: Anglican

3d. Norway: Lutheran

3e. Bucharest: Eastern Orthodox

4a. France, Scottland, Ottoman Empire

4b. Calvinists

4c. France

5 cites: Amsterdam, Pragu, Breitenfeild, White Mountain, Lutter,

4d. Trent

4e. England

4f. St. Bartholmew’s Day Massacre

4g. Thirty Year’s of War?

5. They didn’t want anymore protestants than their already were and they did not want any opposing power against the Church. So they probably burned the books to keep it from spreading all across Rome and Germany along with France

6a. Eastern Orthodox: Patriarchs and Bishops

6b. Roman Catholic: Pope, Cardinals, Bishops

6c. Lutheran: Pastors

6d. Anglican: King of England

6e. Calvinist: Elected Council

Thank you Dr. Phil!

Homework: Wrkbk pgs. : 222

Catholicism:

Origins of Religions: Rome

Beliefs About Sin and Salvation: You must go to Confession to receive Salvation and Redemption

Beliefs about the Ultimate Source of Authority: Head of the Catholic Church

Rituals and Worship: Praise, prayer, and other religious ceremonies

Protestantism:

Origins of religion: Martin Luther

Beliefs about Sin and Salvation: You only have to pray to God yourself and you shall be forgiven for it is God’s gift to give and not the church’s

Beliefs about the Ultimate Source of Authortiy: God

Rituals and Worship: Same as Roman Catholic

Icons Worksheet Florence:

L. O. D. s

1. Hoist: a mechanical device used to lift people or heavy objects.
2. Secular: relating to earthly life rather than religion or spiritual matters.
3. Circulation: the movement of blood through the body.
4. Architecture: the art of designing buildings
5. Engineering: the science of building structures and the like
6. Painting: artwork created with paint on a flat surface such as paper or canvas.
7. Sculpture: the art of creating three-dimensional figures from such materials as wood, stone, and clay.
8. Literature: writing in prose or verse that is excellent in form and expresses ideas of interest to a wide range of people; an aspect of culture.
9. Science: knowledge of the physical world
10. Mathematics: the science of numbers
11. Politics: the science of government
12. Commerce: the buying and selling of goods
13. Trade: The business of buying and selling or exchanging items.
14. Duomo: Cathedral right above Casa Di Dante
15. Palazzi: Palaces

Details

1. The Renaissance was especially fond of Roman art and architecture.
2. Florence, Italy, and Spain were well trained in the performing arts.
a. Their Science and Mathematical skills were very great.
b. They all made advances in literature.
c. Everyone was very political.
3. The Empire took government incredibly seriously.
4. Florence was a key trade route.
5. Florence adapted Humanism, and then it quickly spread out all across to neighboring continents.
6. The power was held by the Medicos
7. Humanists cared a little less about religion and more about living for the “now.”
8. All the city-states were very highly educated in art, Science, Mathematics, and Performing Arts.
9. All of the city-states were right above Afica which gave them a key trade route.
10. The continent was very well known and had many contacts with foreign natives.

Cross- Disciplines

1. Italy was very intelligent with art.
2. Florence extremely educated in Science and Mathematics.

Relate- Over- Time

1. Rome, Spain, Italy, France, and other neighboring city-states made many domes and buildings that are still used today.
2. Leonardo Da Vinci made many steps in Science and Math that help many scientists and scholars to this very day,