God, Gold, and Glory

What do you think were the top five motives (reasons) 15th and 16th century Europeans went on voyages of exploration? Explain your answers.

1. Spreading Christianity

The Church and the government encouraged converting natives and nations. In the hope of favor by god.

2. Colonizing

Growing and expanding their nation, this made more food, taxes, people, slaves, recruitment.

3. Finding new Trading routes

Since Solayman blocked Asia from Europe explores where forced to sail westward in the hope of circling the globe and getting to Asia.

4. Adventure/Title

Sailors and Captins volunteered for these expeditions for the fame and adventure. And where lead by mans curiosity.

5. Nation Pride

Nation Pride this is some what like the space race. And how America and Russia where racing to get to the moon it was the same with the explores just it was discovering the new world. This showed off a countries power and strength. Really good for intimidation.

From all of this came the title or saying "God, Gold, and Glory."

The Scientific Method

The Scientific method is almost a How-To-Guide to how you should conduct a scientific experiment.

1. First of all you start of with a question you want to ask, or Identify some sort of problem.
2. Then you do some research on what your question is asking or the problem.
3. You then want to make a Hypothesis, this is basically an educated guess at what you think is the answer.
4. Then to test your Hypothesis you can conduct an experiment.
5. Once you have completed you experiment you then must analyze your results and and make a conclusion.
6. Finally see if your Hypothesis was correct or not, and report you results.

Why do we still use the Scientific Method?

The answer is, because it works. For over 1000 years scientists have used similar methods to conduct scientific experiments. There is no real flaw in the method, so it has continually worked.

And that is why it is still used, it works.

Johann Tetzel vs Martin Luther

J0hann Tetzel: He is making a marketing campaign that the sale of indulgences is good and will remove all punishment for one sin. And instead of waiting in purgatory you will have less time till you can go to heaven. Then he describes that people trust brokers with their money so they can trust the Church that they can clear their sins.

Martin Luther: He is talking about how he use to think god was an angry being and that he wanted to punish. But he later realized that he is not angry or mad but more like a father looking over everyone trying to help us. And just having faith in him will open the gates to heaven.

Basically Johann is saying that god is harsh and will punish you for your sins. All thought he may not believe it, he is using it for his campaign for the sale of indulgences. While Martin is saying that god loves us all and he is here to help us all and we should just have faith in him not buy indulgences or do good deeds.

"Blood alone moves the wheels of history." - Martin Luther

I think this quote means that we only remember violence, sacrifice and war about the past. And that the most significant things that people learn about the past is related to war. But in recent times this isn't necessarily true for example their have been thousands of inventions that have been remembered for their importance over time like the invention of plastic, cars, planes, the internet, phones etc... and they are not related to war. But it does seem that the most significant events in history relate to sacrifice and war.

The Sale of Grade Points (ISB indulgences)

I felt that there was no way the school would actually consider people would be OK with this and that it was so corrupt. No the school shouldn't sell grades it defeats the whole purpose of school because if you are rich you can get top grades and learn nothing or do nothing. It was similar to how the rich could buy indulges and get higher in the church for just money not there actual beliefs or ideas. And with these grade tickets the rich could get higher in the school not because of their intelligence but their money.

"All the World's a Stage" - William Shakespeare

Well this is basically saying the whole world is just a stage. To me I think he is just trying to say that us humans, are the actors and we all live and play our roles. While some are more important than others. We all eventually finish our roles (death). The play on the stage can funny, tragic, or serious. He is saying that life is like a play and one play mite end a new on starts on the same stage.

Beauty

Consider this quote from Castiglione's The Courtier:
"Outer Beauty is the true sign of inner goodness."
Explain what this quote means to you. How do you know this? Do you agree/disagree with this quote?

Back during the Renaissance, life was all about looking good and trying to make your self attractive on the outside. They would try to bring out their personalities through their clothing and behavior. But i think only in the last while, 80 years or so people have began to disagree with this quote. While someone can be attractive but could be less intelligent than that of an unattractive person. Just because you look nice doesn't mean you are nice. I strongly disagree with this quote because people can be unattractive but the nicest person you have ever met.