Read the following & answer the question With sincere heart and unpretended faith I abjure, curse, and detest the aforesaid
errors and heresies [of Copernicus] and also every other error. . . contrary to the Holy Church, and I swear that in the future I will neveragain say or assert . . . anything that might cause a similar suspicion toward me. GALILEO GALILEI, quoted in The Discoverers According to the quote on the right Galileo promises to_____________________
never say anything against the Catholic Church ever again.
Explanation:
Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer who built the first telescope and discovered the moons of Jupiter. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the catholic church punished scientists because they did not want people questioning its teachings. Since Galilei was the first person to say the Earth rotates around the sun, he was placed on trial. In fact, the catholic church was going to kill him, so he was forced to confess to heresy and promised not to say anything against the Catholic Church again. Finally, he was sentenced to house arrest.
The American Civil War was a civil war in the United States between the Union and the Confederacy. The central cause of the war was the status of slavery, especially the expansion of slavery into territories acquired as a result of the Louisiana Purchase and the Mexican–American War.
