HONORS/GIFTED±DUE FRIDAY @ MIDNIGHTAKS 41b – THE ENLIGHTENMENT READING/STUDY GUIDEDIRECTIONS: Readings are in the green boxes. Answerthe questions beneath each green box.SETTING THE STAGE….A NEW WAY OF THINKINGThe period between 1300 and 1600 was a time of great change in Europe.The Renaissance, a rebirth of learning and the arts, inspired a spirit of curiosity inmany fields. Scholars began to question ideas that had been accepted for hundredsof years. Meanwhile, the religious movement known as the Reformation encouragedfollowers to challenge accepted ways of thinking about God and salvation.While the Reformation was taking place, another revolution in Europeanthinking had begun, one that would permanently change how people viewed thephysical world. Beginning in the mid-1500s, a few scholars published works thatchallenged the ideas of the ancient thinkers, like Socrates and Plato, and the church. As these scholars replaced oldassumptions with new theories, they launched a change in European thought that historians call the ScientificRevolution.The Scientific Revolution was a new way of thinking about the natural world. That way was based upon carefulobservation and a willingness to question accepted beliefs. Great scientific minds like Copernicus, Galileo, and Newtonhelped to usher in this new age of thinking.The ideas of reason and order, which encouraged so many breakthroughs in science, soon moved into otherfields of life. Philosophers and scholars across Europe began to rethink long-held beliefs about the human condition,especially the rights and liberties of ordinary citizens. These thinkers helped to bring in a movement that challenged theage-old relationship between a government and its people, and eventually changed the political landscape in manysocieties forever.
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