Global Studies HW upto Midcycle

Global Studies Homework - Midcycle

HW#1: The Scientific Revolution

Go to: http://mmoloneyiths.com/text/22-1-scirev.pdf

1. Identify Copernicus, Galilei, Newton, Descartes
2. Define: heliocentric, hypothesis
3. Even though the scientific revolution is known to have happened in Europe, how did the rest of the world contribute as well?
4. What did Descartes mean by “I think, therefore I am?” How does this question connect to the scientific revolution?
5. Name three other inventions created at this time. How do you think each one affected the way people saw the world at that time?


HW#2:“The Enlightenment in Europe”
Textbook readings:
F BAND go to pages 551-556
G BAND go to pages 446-450

Questions:
1. How did the scientific revolution relate to the Enlightenment?
2. Why does the role of the ‘individual’ start to matter during the Enlightenment?
3. Pick three Enlightenment thinkers, write their main ideas out. Do you agree or disagree with each? Why/why not?

HW#3: Philosophe's Chart
Great a chart.
On one side pick a philosophe.
Write about his/her main ideas. (4-5 sentences)
Choose a quote from that philosophe. Explain what the quotation means. (4-5 sentences)
On the other side of the chart, write about the main character from "Into The Wild."
Answer these questions:
Why is he SIMILAR to the philosophe you wrote about? (4-5 sentences)
What are examples from the film that demonstrate this similarity?
What are examples from your own life about how you relate to this philosophe?

HW#4 Study Guide

PART ONE:
You are going to create an INCREDIBLE timeline!

You can make it on extra long paper
or attach two 8x11 papers together.

Your timeline must include all of the following events or people on it: (they can be part of the description – as long as they are all explained somewhere on the timeline)

WORDS TO USE:
• Scientific Revolution
• Copernicus
• Galileo
• Heliocentric theory
• The Enlightenment
• The Old Regime
• Versailles
• King Louis XVI/Marie Antoinette
• General Estates Meeting
• Tennis Court Oath
• National Assembly
• Storming of the Bastille
• Declaration of the Rights of Man
• Constitution
• March on Versailles
• Marat
• Robespierre
• Reign of Terror
• Jacobins
• San Coulettes
• Guillotine

You must write at least 3-4 sentences explaining
1) What/Who was it?
2) Why was it/he/she important?
3) How did the previous event lead to this one?
EXTRA CREDIT: INCLUDE IMAGES

PART TWO:
Words to use to answer the three questions below:
• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Clergy
• Nobility/Aristocracy
• Bourgeoisie
• Peasants
• Marie Antoninette
• King Louis XVI
• Estates General Meeting
• Tennis Court Oath
• National Assembly
• Storming of the Bastille
• Bread Riots
• American Revolution
• The Enlightenment
• Versailles
Questions to answer using the words above:
Write one paragraph describing the economic factors that led to revolution:







Write one paragraph describing the political factors that led to revolution:








Write one paragraph describing the social factors that led to revolution:








Part Three

Write at least one sentence describing the main idea of each philosphe:
Hobbes


Locke


Voltaire


Rousseau


Montesquieu


Wollstonecraft


Beccaria



Why was it called the ‘Age of Reason’?