What are the differences between the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment?

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Answers will vary. Starting first and earlier, the Scientific Revolution was born from the diffusion of the ideas renewed in the Renaissance, particularly of Greek and Roman science, philosophy and mathematics. Although a very small audience initially, the Scientific Revolution was a very intimate group of intellectual explorers who set the groundwork for explaining the natural world around them without the dependence on a supernatural explanation. Working off each other's ideas, new forms of science were developed to create specialties, and standards that were acceptable to meet an intellectual standard. By contrast, the Enlightenment was non-science based, but still dependent on rationalism and logic, for explanation of human nature, which gradually turned to the weighty problems of society and politics in the modern era.

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To help former slaves adjust to life away from the Southern ___________, Congress formed the Freedmen's Bureau, which helped former slaves with food, clothes, and education.

Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).

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Explain how the emergence of ecosystems made for ever greater biological diversity.

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During the Middle Ages, most education and learning took place

A) outside of Europe. B) in Rome. C) in monasteries. D) within wealthy families. E) within royal courts.

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