This is an example of one of my Making Thirteen Colonies papers. In social studies we are reading the book called Making Thirteen Colonies. This book is about the voyage and the settlement in the new world at perspective of the British. There is so much information in this book and it is so interesting to read. The reason I think this is my best Making Thirteen Colonies papers is because I believe that I spent the most time thinking about this. The first chapter in this book has so much information so you need to think about it to understand it.
Name: Eli Harris September 2016
Humanities Making Thirteen Colonies
Directions: Finish reading chapter 1 in Making Thirteen Colonies. Answer the following questions below, responding in complete sentences and using textual evidence and analysis. This assignment is due Monday, September 12th. Proofread your work carefully.
- Halley’s comet means something bad was going to happen.
- Galileo was first to see Halley’s comet through telescope and found that it came every 75 years.
- Everything before this was rounded around religion.
- Everybody was challenging religion and everything that they knew after they heard from copernicus and galileo that the world didn’t go around earth it went around the sun.
1.What is the main idea of this chapter? ,” (Hakim, p. 10).
In the early 1600s change was upon Europe. The Catholic Church had been starting to break down. Was this good for Europe or were they going through a dark age? In the year of 1607 an Italian scientist Galileo Galilei was looking through his brand new telescope when he saw something. It was a comet! Halley’s comet to be exact. At this time religion ruled everything. Nobody knew what to think of this after they saw this comet. Religion had no explanation for what happened. In this time in age everyone was taught and told that Earth was the center of the universe. After everyone saw the Comet a lot of tension rose because of it. After hearing about the comet the Polish Scientist Nicolaus Copernicus came up with the idea that the Earth is actually not the center of the universe and the Sun. Everyone was discouraged after hearing this. Was Nicolaus Copernicus questioning religion and the Pope. Even Galileo Galilei later said that Nicholas Copernicus was right. “Change is troublesome, especially to those in power”, (Hakim, p. 16). If Nicolaus Copernicus was right they everything that everybody thought to be right was wrong. Everything that the Pope said was wrong. If the Pope was wrong than everything had to be wrong people thought. Although at the time this struck conflict, in the long run it opened up opportunity. This event made many people spread because they felt like they wanted to start a new life. If everything they knew was wrong than a new life was the solution. This also opened up the Scientific Era.
2 Identify/Define the following names/terms:
(no textual evidence needed for these)
- Galileo Galilei:
Galileo Galilei was an Italian scientist. He saw the Comet for the first time through his brand new telescope. After seeing the comet, Polish scientist Nicolaus Copernicus said that the universe does not revolve around Earth, it revolves around the Sun.
- Nicholas Copernicus:
Nicolaus Copernicus was a Polish scientist who lived from 1473-1543. After hearing that Galileo Galilei saw the comet through his telescope he began to think maybe the whole universe doesn’t all revolve around the Earth maybe it revolves around the sun.
- How did Copernicus, and later Galileo, challenge religion and tradition in the sixteenth century?
In the early 1600s religion ruled everything. If you challenged it you were thought to be evil. Since religion ruled everything that meant the Pope ruled everything on earth because he was God’s representative on earth. After Nicholas Copernicus said that Earth wasn’t the center of the universe and the sun actually was, conflict raised. People thought he was “evil” because he was questioning religion and what the bible said. “Many who watched the bold comet were frightened”, (Hakim p. 15). Even though people thought that the Polish scientist was evil. They did not know what to make of it. They were scared of what their life could become if all of religion which is their whole life was wrong.