The Scientific Revolution
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The Scientific Revolution, which took place during the 16th and 17th centuries, was a movement among two other extremely pivotal events that impacted European life entirely. The Protestant Reformation caused long-term conflict and destructive religious wars when Martin Luther proposed an alternative theological interpretation that upset the corrupt but accepted Catholic Church. European Expeditions of the New World of the Americas led explorers to encounter and learn about new people and environments, of which much was still unknown. These two events caused Europeans to question nations religion or that had been accepted through a limited view of the world. The Scientific revolution was questioned by many people because they were unsure about the religion and not many people new about the religion at the time. And they were more focused on education more than religion.
The documents are written by all men except for document 6 and document 6 was written by Margarett Cavendish, Margarett wrote about how she wanted to set up her own school, but she knew that is she did set up her own school for women she would eventually be kicked out of the school because she was a women and they were really unfair to women and they treated women really bad because they thought women couldn’t do as much work as men can, so women were treated worse than men.
Documents 3, 4, 5 were all written by philosophers and they all were about the stuff that the scientist in the 16th and 17th century did, all the work that he did and all the contrubutions that the scientist did and they showed that the human minds and body are all one thing.