People began to rely on agriculture. And, organizing agriculture led to the development of political organization. Women's role in society became more domestic as men began to do the farmwork. When there was surplus agricultural production, other occupations like artisans and merchants came up.
In the early 17th century Galileo was indeed convicted of heresy because he claimed that Earth revolved around the Sun. This conviction was an example of an religiously motivated conviction of someone who had the best intentions in mind in the sense of mankind achieving greater knowledge.
<span>Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Richard Cheney</span>
on july 30, 1619 in Jamestown Virginia the first elected legislative assembly in the New World–the House of Burgesses–convenes in the choir of the town’s church.