Journal #32- Revolution

Revolutions have played a significant role in the history of the human race.  From ancient Egypt to the modern society, revolutions in technology and society have occurred.  One of the first major revolutions of society was the movement from nomadic life to tribal and town life.  Early people of Mesopotamia started out as a wandering society following their food sources of animals.  Eventually they discover crops that could sustain a permanent civilization.  This has occurred again and again in our history.  The Native Americans also did this, but it was much later in the fifteenth through seventeenth centuries.  This is just one example of revolutions in how humans do things.  Revolutions in thinking are also very significant.  Before the year 1492, many people still believed that the world was flat and if you traveled far enough you would end up falling off the face of the earth.  When Christopher Columbus traveled to the New World, he proved many of these theories wrong.  This discovery revolutionized how humans viewed the world.  Another revolution in human thought was what the connection between the sun and the earth was.  In the medieval age, most people believed that the sun revolved around the earth.  Then a scientist made some observations and proved that it was the other way around.  This revolutionized thought because people now realized that the earth was not the center of the universe.  Revolutions have been a significant factor in the progress of technology and society of the human race.  Thoughts and the way people live are very different today than they were one hundred and one thousand years ago.  This can be credited to the revolutions our society has made.  In order for a revolution to occur, someone must go against what is normal, and stand up for a new idea.  The great people of our history were not the conformers, but the leaders of new movements.  As we look to the future, we must be ready to change some of our ideas because we still do not know very much about our universe.