Why Was Versailles Important

1. Versailles (1682): Why was Versailles important?

Versailles was a very important place because Louis XIV “moved his court and government” to Versailles when it was newly renovated. It was also important because it became the “center of political, social, and cultural life.” Also that other absolutist monarchs in Europe copied the layout of the palace. This shows that Versailles is important because many others tried to recreate it. The palace was also used for government offices for royal bureaucrats, living quarters for the royal and noble families, and a place to work for hundreds of domestic servants. All these reason show why Versailles was an important place.

2. Galileo Galilei (1564-1642): Who was he and what did he accomplish?

Galileo Galilei was a poor nobleman known for his religious career. His great accomplishment was the elaboration and consolidation of the experimental law. The method was to observe the universe through various repeatable experiments rather than speculations. Another thing he achieved is when he was measuring a rolling ball across the surface and kept repeating the same experiment, he figured out the law of inertia. From this he found out that motion is forever “unless stop by an external

force and rest wasn’t the natural state of an object.” This shows the some of the many accomplishment he has achieved and establish who he was.

3. Encyclopedia: Who were the creators and what did they want to accomplish with the making of it? What kind of information was contained in it?
The creators of the encyclopedia is Denis Diderot (1713-1784) and Jean le Rond d’Alembert (1717- 1783). They both wanted to accomplish by the making the book is “expanding whole of human knowledge” and ‘”change the general way of thinking.”’ This explains how thee book became an importance to people throughout the 1750s. The information contained inside the Encyclopedia is “seventy-two thousand articles by leading scientists, writers, skilled workers, and progressive priests, and it treated every aspect of life and knowledge.” This is important because it shows that now people can get smarter and know about the things happening around them.

Unit 4:
1. Open-Field System: What was the open-field system and how did it work?
The open-field system is land that was divided into several large fields, “which were in turn cut up into long, narrow strips.” This presents the system was superb to plant more crops around and an advantage to the farmers being able to survive. The way the system work is that the farmers or peasant could how many crops they wanted and just keep a rotation for the crops, so they can harvest it. This helped because they got more food which could result to survival and growth in population. Eventually, from this system “the whole peasant village followed the same pattern of plowing, snowing, and harvesting in accordance with long-standing traditions.” This shows the importance of the system and how it helped people.
2. Blood Sports: What were the blood sports and describe them?
The blood sports were the violent and bloody sports such as bullbaiting and cockfighting.

So bullbaiting, is “the bull, usually asked on chain in the courtyard of an inn, was attacked by ferocious dogs for the amusement of the innkeeper’s clients.” This help shows why it is called a blood sport because of all the vicious behavior. Also cockfighting is “two roosters, carefully trained by their owners and armed with razor-sharp steel spurs, slashed and clawed each other in a small ring until the victor won-and the loser died.” This helps explain why cockfighting is a violent sport and also why it is under the category blood sports. As you can see these sports live up to the categories they came from because of their bloody and vicious

activities.
3. Napoleonic Code: What was the Napoleonic code and how did help?
The Napoleonic code is a “French civil code promulgated in 1804 that reasserted the 1789 principles of the equality of all male citizens before the law and the absolute security of wealth and private property, as well as restricting rights accorded to women by previous revolutionary laws.” This shows the code is to protect wealth and property but restricting women from doing things. It also helped in a good way to for instance, it ‘won over peasants by defending the gains in land and status they had one during the Revolution.” This shows the benefit of the code and how it helped the peasants in protecting what they had one. Finally, shows that the code wasn’t useless and actually helped people.