Age of Enlightenment

 1.  -These are the first steps we see the world becoming more modernized.
     -These are the first steps we see the world becoming interdependent.
     -The gaining of new knowledge causes conflict between religion and science.

                                

2.    2. The most important is Food shortages to Food Surplus. When civilizations started to have a surplus of food not everyone had to be farmers and work the fields. This lead to different jobs. Now with all these new jobs, new technologies started to be created and discovered. Explorers discovered new lands and resources which lead to more trade. Ports and water trade became much more prevalent.  Also the printing press was invented which lead to more books, ideas, and languages. With all these new ideas, came new theories which questioned old theories. The controversy between religion vs. science started. Having more food lead to a more interdependent world.

3.                3.With the printing press came new ideas and theories which lead to controversy. Scientists began questioning long-standing beliefs in the theories of the universe. Copernicus argued that the sun, not the earth, was the center of the universe.  When he published these controversial ideas, he ran into problems with the church.  Other astronomers like Galileo, also make observations and advanced theories that ran counter to the teachings in the bible.  The ideas of the scientific revolution would not have spread if not for the printing press.

 4. Galileo Galilei was an physicist and mathematician who developed the scientific method.  He created a telescope which allowed him to study the moon, the moons of Jupiter and the Milky Way.  With the telescope he said he could see 10 times the number of stars that were visible to the naked eye.  A recent article in the New York Times, “How Many Stars?  Three Times as many as We Thought, Report Says” highlights how far astronomers have come since the time of Galileo.  What started in 1609 as Galileo’s simple telescope has now given us the advanced Hubble Space Telescope.  The data from the Hubble Telescope has enabled astronomers to think about the universe in different ways and develop new theories about the universe.  This article suggests that “there could be three times as many stars out there as had been thought.”  Galileo helped to first understand the universe with his telescope and scientist are continuing to learn even more.  

Source: www.nytimes.com/2010/12/02/science/space/02star.html 

 5.One of my most profound experiences in my life was being diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was in fifth grade.  Every day is impacted by having diabetes in some way.  Things are different in regard to how I eat, how I exercise and how I relax than if I’d not been diagnosed.  It is a major experience in my life and influences how I live my life.