Week 4 reading

I thought last weeks reading was very interesting.
We covered topics that ranged from science to religion and if there is a combination and ethical questions.
We talk about the globalization of Christianity, and it's people that influenced the time from 1450-1750.
Christianity at this time was spread out all over the world and the church started to gain more and more control over the people.  And if they would fight the church or the Pope, question the hierarchies, you needed to pay for it and got thrown into prison.
At this time Christianity wasn't only Christianity any more. Out of this religion established different religions. Different branches, like Catholics, and spiritual ceremonies that were spread in Afro- Asian cultural. Those communities believed more in drumming, ritual dancing and annual sacrifices and were more spiritual than reading the bible.
And also at this time a lt of people were not able to read. They had people like priest or the pope interpreted the bible for them.
China still practiced Confucianism and India was divided into Hindu and Muslim culture.
But it happen as well that Islam and Hindu tradition got mixed into a new belief.

Martin Luther played a very important role in this time era. He translated the bible and published 95 statements and ask the church to rethink the ways and why they address the world like they were.

We also talked about the scientific revolution, which I thought was the most interesting topic we talked about last week. I am a Bio major and believe in the theory of the scientific creation of the world. I do know of the creation story that God created us and this world, but I can't really agree or wrap my mind around the idea that woman were created out of a rip or man were created as mentioned in Mathews 2, out of mud.
So the idea of a big bang and evolution makes a whole more sense to me.
One important scientist back in the days was Copernicus. He discovered that the world is not the center and the sun is actually spinning around the world and we only one part of the galaxy and there are other planets with more suns out there.
He actually threw off the whole theory of the biblical belief system, but he knew that and because of that he did not published his work till shortly before his death.
It took the church a while to adapt to this new understanding of the world.
The society back them was constantly learning new things and people were more and more questioning theories and developed new knowledge.
It came to this point that people talked about the enlightenment time era, which meant people were forcing the remove of darkness of ignorance. It was very critical and found new prospective political and it showed that the society is not perfect and doesn't has to because through the in-perfection  humans gain new knowledge.

Charles Darwin was a great scientist. He discovered that evolution happens through natural selection. And with this statement he also challenged the church and was very controversial for his days.
Karl Marx as well played an important role- he was known for his research on human civilization and extensive historical research. He said that "socialism was not a good Idea it was inscribed in the laws of historical development".
Europe became the center of the world, it was the beginning of a time era also known as he "modern era" for constitutional government, political democracy, socialism, nationalism, feminism and the opposition of slavery as well as a industrial revolution.
A lot of things happen, and all this was because Europe had a great communication with other countries and the right ideas or weapons to fight them.
It was part of the Atlantic revolution, where intellectual and cultural people were able to exchange ideas and trade off things. There was also commercial and biological intercourse between different cultures.
North America had a revolution as well, we accomplished the deceleration of Independence in 1776and that followed with a military victory in 1781. In 1787 North America had a federal constitution and out of 13 colonies it became 1 nation.

France got inspired by this and followed with the French revolution in 1989.
But we are going to talk about this in week 5 of lecture.