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20 Cards in this Set
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True or False, Kings could rule by "divine right" during this time
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False
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True or False, Nationalism was the call of the day.
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True
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What was the core emphasis of the political upheaval that occurred?
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individual and national rights of men
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What laid the foundation for the Industrial Revolution?
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neoclassic rationalism
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Who wrote the Wealth of Nations?
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Adam Smith
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True or False, Smith advocated economic individualism without any form of governmental control.
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True
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What lead Karl Marx to formulate the theories of socialism in Das Kapital?
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exploitation of the worker
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The Industrial Revolution owes much of its success to the development of what?
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the steam engine
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Who developed the steam engine?
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James Watt
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When did biology become a recognized area of study?
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shortly after 1800
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In the 1820's Auguste Comte divided history into what three periods?
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the religious-superstitious, the philosophical, and the scientific positivistic
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What religion had produced in the Middle Ages, _________ now performed for the nineteenth century.
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science
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Where did most of the philosophical thinking of the late 18th and 19th centuries occur?
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Germany
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What was the name of the philosophical movement in Germany, and what was its aim?
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Strum and Drang (Storm and Stress), and its aim was to overthrow rationalism
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The cult of nature replaced ________.
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religion
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________'s emphasis on the individual and power of inspiration added fuel to the already raging fire against Rationalism.
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Rousseau
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What are the characteristics of Romantic thinking?
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Sentimentality, individualism, nature
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Where did the Romantics feel that the riddle of man must find its answer?
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the heart
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What do the Romantic writers present love as?
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a rather unhappy condition, but holds the most meaningful experiences to encounter
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What did the romantics consider nature to be?
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the physical world apart from human achievements
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