I.C.9-12.3

Explain and analyze revolutions (e.g., democratic, scientific, technological, social) as they evolved throughout the enlightenment and their enduring effects on political, economic and cultural institutions, to include:<ol type="a"><li>Copernican view of the universe and Newton's natural laws</li><li>tension and cooperation between religion and new scientific discoveries</li><li>impact of Galileo's ideas and the introduction of the scientific method as a means of understanding the universe</li><li>events and ideas that led to parliamentary government (English civil war, glorious revolution)</li><li>enlightenment philosophies used to support events leading to American and French revolutions</li><li>Napoleonic era (e.g., codification of law); Latin America's wars of independence</li></ol>