Robespierre And the Reign Of Terror

The reign of terror was a period of violence that occurred fifteen months after the onset of the french revolution. Many people where killed during this period, from numbers ranging from 16,000 to 40,000. Out of all these people, about 8 percent was aristocrats, 6 percent clergy, 14 percent middle class and 70 percent peasants and workers. The way that people died during the Reign of terror was with the Guillotine.A instrument that cuts of the head of people very quickly. King Louis the 16Th was killed this way. Maximilian Robespierre was a great influence during the reign of terror. He was instrumental in the period of the revolution and the reign of terror which he ended followed with his arrest and his death.

Robespierre believed that the Terror was a time of discovering and revealing the enemy within Paris, within France, the enemy that hid in the safety of apparent patriotism.On July 24 1794,Robespierre was accused of tyranny, barred from speaking at the National Convention, and was placed under arrest along with several key supporters. Althouth these captives were later rescued by the soldiers loyal to the commune of paris, the convention later ordered the National Guard to move to re-capture Robespierre who subsquently recieved a bullet shot to his lower jaw. On July 28Th Robespierre and with his closests companions

The French Revolution

1)People back then in France where very critical about these three things,nobility,clergy and King, because they all wanted to stay on top of everything. They didn't want the peasants





2)A French peasant would've have grumbled about not having enough animals to give to the king. Since they where the lowest class, they had many problems paying taxes to the king.
3)The caption shows all the three estates, the clergy,the king and the others. Since the others are the lowest class, the clergy and the king are above them. They both can outvote the others. The sentence that is under the caption says that one day, hopefully this will all be over. The peasants will one day above from all and have equal power.
4) The writer is explaining how the lives of the peasants where bad. They had to pay most of the taxes and the way that the king is treating them, the taxes will crush them. They have very little to give.
5) The sources A,B and C explain why the peasants would hate the rich. Even without it being written on it. You can tell why.
6)Rousseau would most influence the poor people because since Rousseau is writing about democracy, the poor people would agree with him because they are the lowest of the class.They want to be treated equal,have equal power and have equal rights that everybody above them have.
7)The pamphlet may have been banned because maybe the people with greater class than the peasants didn't like it. The king probably doesn't believe in everybody having equal power. The king wants to rule everybody and wanst to be on top of everything. The clergy probably belives in that too since they are not at the bottom of the classes.

John Locke and "The Enlightment"

The declaration of Independence has rights that consents to all the people of America. John Locke influenced Thomas Jefferson to write his opinions on The Declaration Of Independence. Most of the rights and things that are written on the Declaration of Independence comes from John Locke. The rights that Jefferson wrote on it was life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And also if any form of government becomes destructive,it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it.According to The Declaration Of Independence, the government comes from us,the people. The government gets it's power from us. If we don't like the way the government is we can change the way it is because we have the power. John Locke also says that all men are created equal, so to back that up, John influenced Jefferson to give everybody the same rights, giving everybody equal power over the government.

Copernicus and the trial of Galileo

The two theories, Heliocentric and Geocentric, were believed by many philosophers back then in the 16Th hundreds. The two most popular philosophers were Pythagorean who supported the Geocentric theory and Copernicus who supported the Heliocentric idea. The geocentric idea is the concept that believes that the earth is in the middle of the universe and that all other planets and stars are moving around it. If one person is to stand and look at the sky, it looks like earth is moving and everything is just staying in place until 24 hours pass by.

The heliocentric theory is the theory that believed that the sun is the middle of the solar system.
heliocentric was opposed to the geocentric theory. It was not until the 16Th hundreds that a philosopher, Copernicus,presented a fully predictive mathematical model of a heliocentric system.

Scientific Revolution:The Scientific Method

Scientific method refers to a body of techniques for acquiring new knowledge. The person who made this method was Ibn-al Haytham.A lot of scientific methods where used from the ancient Egyptians or from the bible.The first experimental scientific method was developed by Muslim scientists. One experiment that was used by using the scientific method was when scientists thought that the earth was the center of the universe. They thought that the other planets and stars(including the sun) was revolving around the earth. The scientists thought that the earth was still and never moved but later on it was proved wrong. The first scientist to challenge this theory was Copernicus. He proved that the earth was not the planet that was staying still but actually it was the sun that stayed still and the sun's binding force is what is keeping everything in the universe together. He was one of the people who used the scientific method.

Creation Vs.Evolution

Creation is based on faith and religion. Evolution is based on facts and information.In creation,many people believe that the earth an all that live in it were created by God.Creation is a religious based concept that comes from the bible. In the bible it says that God created earth in 7 days. It says that on the first day, God created light and it's separation from darkness. The religion concept d0esn't use facts, so there was no way to prove this. Instead of saying that the actual animals and plants, and all living forms that are present today where created through a process of survival based on adaptation and evolution etc., instead, they believe that they were just made the way they are ( meaning no changes ever).They didn't believe they were made from single-cell organism.


Evolution is the second ( actually the most accepted nowadays) theory that people believe in. Scientists proved this with many facts and information( through the use of the scientific method). A theory in which it proves that everything on earth had a certain way of evolving throughout the years. Unlike the theory of creation, scientists don't believe that earth was created in 7 days. They believe that all started from the big bang, where all the basic elements like oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, necessary in the formation of the most simple forms of life up to the origin of mammals, which took over between 14-15 billion years ago, and the humans where created about 50,000 years ago. Scientists say that the animals,birds and plants, evolved from a similar ancestor. There are facts to prove this.

The theory that I believe in,out of these two, is evolution. The reason I believe in this theory is because they have facts and information to prove this. Religion only has there imagination but no proof. For example,people that believe in the creation theory say that if you fall off a plane,God can control the fall. Scientists say that if you fall, gravity is going to pull you down. Since they have proof that gravity exists, most people go with the scientist say. And that is why I chose to go with the facts instead of believing.