1. The Age of
A period in which a number of significant revolutionary movements occurred. The period is noted for the change in government from absolutist monarchies to republics.

2. Scientific Revolution
Humanist thought from the Renaissance encouraged people to explore, experiment, and create. This led to an era of investigation.

3. Scientific Revolution
A series of major advances in science during the 1500’s and 1600’s.
New way of viewing the natural world- based on observation and inquiry
Isaac Newton and the scientific method and universal gravitation
scientific method
Nicolaus Copernicus and heliocentric model

4. Scientific Revolution
New technologies such as the telescope, microscope, and thermometer were invented during the scientific revolution

5. The Enlightenment
The Enlightenment was a movement during the 1600’s and 1700’s to apply observation and reason to human affairs.
Ideals like equality, liberty, the pursuit of happiness and pluralism (separate branches of gov.) shaped modern democracy

6. Changes In England
During the 1600’s, the Parliament gradually took power away from the monarchy with the Petition of Right following disputes against King Charles I over the execution of the Thirty Year War.
In 1689, the English Bill of Rights was passed which laid down powers of the crown, set out the rights of parliament, and right to petition the monarch without fear of retribution (punishment).
Power was not held by Parliament not Kings

7. The French Revolution
A political movement that removed the French king from power and formed a republic.
Decline in powerful monarchies and churches and the rise of democracy and nationalism.
Third Estate (common people) resented the privileges enjoyed by the clergy (religious leaders in the First estate) and nobles ( the Second Estate)

8. The French Revolution
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to power in the latter stages of the French Revolution
Ended feudalism and spread religious tolerance
Napoleonic Wars
French Revolution in a nutshell

9. Industrial Revolution
Transition from hand tools driven by animal or human power to large-scale machinery
Average income and population began to grow
The factory system emerged with pollution from factories, long work hours, child labor, as well as overcrowded living conditions

10. Industrial Revolution
First factories made textiles, clothes
Industrial Revolution Video