Gradually scientists came to challenge more and more what the ancients [past civilizations] taught. They came to develop new, be
tter methods of finding out how things worked. Mathematical knowledge increased and helpedthem to reason. They began to think up experiments to check on their ideas in a methodical way. The scientificrevolution had begun.Many men were needed to bring this about. These men came from every part of Europe. They wrote books toexplain their ideas. The printing press made it possible to produce thousands of copies which found their way allover Europe. Scientists were able to learn from one another and give one another new ideas. So the ScientificRevolution was not the work of Englishmen, or Frenchmen, or Italians alone. It was the work of Europeans. And,as we have seen, even they did not do it all by themselves. The Chinese, the Indians, the Persians, and the Arabsall gave something before it came about. Today this is not hard to understand, because men and women from allover the world add to scientific knowledge and so help one another. Required:
Based on this document, state two changes resulting from the Scientific Revolution.
Explanation: Particularly in the strongly Catholic nations of Spain and Portugal, religious zeal motivated the rulers to convert Native Americans and sanctify Christian global dominance.
