---
title: "SSWH13: Changing European Worldview (Georgia Social Studies standard)"
code: SSWH13
cite_as: Georgia Standards of Excellence, Social Studies, SSWH13
subject: social_studies
grades:
  - high-school
language: en
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source_last_changed: 2025-02-04
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# SSWH13: Changing European Worldview

Examine the intellectual, political, social, and economic factors that changed the world view of Europeans from the sixteenth century CE/AD to the late eighteenth century CE/AD.

- Subject: Social Studies
- Appears in: High School, https://georgiahomeroom.org/standards/social_studies/high-school.md

## Expectations

- **SSWH13.a**: Explain the scientific contributions of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton and how these ideas changed the European worldview.
- **SSWH13.b**: Identify the major ideas of the Enlightenment from the writings of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau, and their relationship to politics and society.

## Georgia Milestones coverage

No Georgia Milestones blueprint cites this standard.

Source: Georgia Standards of Excellence, published by the Georgia Department of Education at case.georgiastandards.org.