If the Arabs and the Chinese were a lot more advanced than the Europeans throughout the years, why did this great intellectual breakthrough occur in Europe. First of all, the Europeans allowed the Church, the towns, and the Cities to be independent from each other, so that education could take place no matter what the Church though of the stuff that they were learning. Then after that major change, the Europeans started another thing where they now allowed universities to accept, and deny students, since the universities were independent from the Church, the student were free to dive into whatever they wanted to study. So while Europe had these amazing universities where they were free to study, and gain knowledge, the Muslims and the Chinese had nothing. That is the main reason as to why this breakthrough happened in Europe. Europe was also very resourceful, and even used the ideas that the Muslims and chinese had, to further there knowledge, mostly in the scientific field. As people were studying more and more, suddenly a huge wave of information came there way, because they were ignorant to many things in the past because of the church.
Science as Cultural Revolution
What the scientific revolution did during these times, was mostly just challenge the old ways of thinking that mostly revolved around the church at the time. The first major scientific breakthrough was the theory of Nicolaus Copernicus. He thought that everything revolved around the sun, instead of everything revolving around earth, and to the Catholic church thought that this was not good at all, because it was pretty much saying that the earth was no longer unique or at the center of God's attention. After this breakthrough, people such as Johannes Kepler and Galileo Galilei started doing even more research and experimentation, and a huge thing that they discovered was Jupiter, and how the planets moved. The greatest achievement had to be that of Sir Isaac Newton. He came up with the concept universal gravitation. People then started doing extensive mathematical research on how gravity worked. Even though these great achievements were taking place, the church was really unhappy of what was going on, but they gradually started accepting science, as long as people tied everything back to God.
Science and Enlightenment
Scientific knowledge was at is best because of the new printing presses that enable people to record research for everyone to view. Because now there was so many resources out there, people stared encouraging learning more and more. People got so into the study of science and math, that some even start questioning the church, and thinking of it as a bunch of superstitions. The most important thing that came out of this whole scientific revolution was the idea of progress among the people of Europe.
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