The Scientific Revolution

Which event exposed Europeans to advances in science and mathematics, eventually leading to the Scientific Revolution?

• The Crusades

• The Inquisition

• The Religious Wars

• The Age of Discovery

The Scientific Revolution was a time where

• people began to experiment and collect evidence about the world around them
• people became MORE religious
• The Catholic Church gained power
• Greek and Roman ideas were reborn

Scientist began using _____________ and _______________ instead of placing their beliefs in faith.

• History and faith
• Math and Science
• Math and History
• reason and logic

What began to be questioned during the Scientific Revolution?

• The Church
• The Monarch
• The Government
• Science

How did the discoveries of the Scientific Revolution affect Europeans regarding religion?

• Europeans questioned their faith in religion.

• Europeans became less tolerant of other religions.

• Europeans began to explore the mystical aspects of religion.

• Europeans began to understand the similarities between world religions.

The Catholic Church defended the views of _________, Ptolemy and other Greek philosophers because the Church felt their theories about nature supported the traditional Biblical view.

• Al-Battani
• Aristotle
• Julius Caesar
• King Richard the Lionheart

The idea that the earth is the center of the universe is the ___________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• earthcentric
• world's worst

Who created the geocentric theory?

• Issac Newton
• Ptolemy 
• Copernicus
• Galileo

The idea that the sun is the center of the universe is the ____________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• solar
• sunny

Which theory is pictured?

• Heliocentric

• Geocentric