What is the main idea of this passage? sir isaac newton is the greatest scientist of this era. light comes from the sun in fewer than seven minutes. the followers of descartes know more than those who follow newton. people still don’t understand how the world works.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.