Contemporary world History Christina Cagol EXAM 1 September 8, 2014
1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject. It is an approach of art where a painter takes a real life object and changes it in a completely different way to the way he or she views it in their mind and how they perceive it. Cubism used geometric shapes to replace traditional forms. An example …show more content…
This was known as the development of the internal combustion engine. An oil-fired engine was made in 1897, and by 1902, the Hamburg-Amerika line had switched from coal to oil on its new ocean liners and by the beginning of the 20th century, some naval fleets had been converted to oil burners as well. The internal combustion engine also gave rise to the automobile and the airplane and by 1900 world production stood at 9,00 cars. By 1906, Americans had overtaken the intial lead of the French. Henry ford, an American, had revolutionized the automotive industry with the mass production of the model T. Ford’s factories were producing 735,000 cars a year by 1916. While this was happening, air transportation had emerged with the Zeppelin airship in 1900. The Wright brothers made the first flight in a fixed-wing plane powered by a gasoline engine in 1903. World War I prompted the aircraft industry and in 1919, the first regular passenger air service was established. This caused a drastic change in society because now people had the ability to travel all over the world and experience different …show more content…
In a cartel, independent enterprises worked together to control prices and fix production quotas. It would confine the kind of competition that led to reduced prices. Cartels were exceedingly strong in Germany. Banks moved to protect their investment by eliminating the “anarchy of competition.” The growth in the size of industrial plants led to pressure for greater efficiency in factory production at the same time that competition led to demands for greater economy. The outcome was a desire to streamline or rationalize production. The development in precision tools enabled manufacturers to produce interchangeable parts, which then led to the creation of the assembly line for production. The assembly line was mostly used in manufacturing nonmilitary goods, such as sewing machines, typewriters, bicylces, and last but not least, automobiles. By 1900, Europeans were receiving beef and wool form Argentina and Australia, coffee from Brazil, nitrates from Chile, iron ore from Algeria, and sugar from Java all thanks to the economic developments and the grows of marine transport and railroads. European capital was also invested abroad to develop railroads, mines, electric power plants, and banks. Foreign countries provided markets for the extra amounts of manufactured goods that were being produced. China and the Roman Empire had exchanged goods on both the maritime route across the Indian Ocean and over the famous Silk
1. Pablo Picasso and George Braque founded cubism in the early 20th century in Paris. It was an artwork to be considered as the first radical approach in expressing visual reality. According to Cubist, any perception of an object was a composite of simultaneous and different perspectives. Cubism tries to help one understand the world around them in a different way by changing their perspective on a certain subject. It is an approach of art where a painter takes a real life object and changes it in a completely different way to the way he or she views it in their mind and how they perceive it. Cubism used geometric shapes to replace traditional forms. An example …show more content…
This was known as the development of the internal combustion engine. An oil-fired engine was made in 1897, and by 1902, the Hamburg-Amerika line had switched from coal to oil on its new ocean liners and by the beginning of the 20th century, some naval fleets had been converted to oil burners as well. The internal combustion engine also gave rise to the automobile and the airplane and by 1900 world production stood at 9,00 cars. By 1906, Americans had overtaken the intial lead of the French. Henry ford, an American, had revolutionized the automotive industry with the mass production of the model T. Ford’s factories were producing 735,000 cars a year by 1916. While this was happening, air transportation had emerged with the Zeppelin airship in 1900. The Wright brothers made the first flight in a fixed-wing plane powered by a gasoline engine in 1903. World War I prompted the aircraft industry and in 1919, the first regular passenger air service was established. This caused a drastic change in society because now people had the ability to travel all over the world and experience different …show more content…
In a cartel, independent enterprises worked together to control prices and fix production quotas. It would confine the kind of competition that led to reduced prices. Cartels were exceedingly strong in Germany. Banks moved to protect their investment by eliminating the “anarchy of competition.” The growth in the size of industrial plants led to pressure for greater efficiency in factory production at the same time that competition led to demands for greater economy. The outcome was a desire to streamline or rationalize production. The development in precision tools enabled manufacturers to produce interchangeable parts, which then led to the creation of the assembly line for production. The assembly line was mostly used in manufacturing nonmilitary goods, such as sewing machines, typewriters, bicylces, and last but not least, automobiles. By 1900, Europeans were receiving beef and wool form Argentina and Australia, coffee from Brazil, nitrates from Chile, iron ore from Algeria, and sugar from Java all thanks to the economic developments and the grows of marine transport and railroads. European capital was also invested abroad to develop railroads, mines, electric power plants, and banks. Foreign countries provided markets for the extra amounts of manufactured goods that were being produced. China and the Roman Empire had exchanged goods on both the maritime route across the Indian Ocean and over the famous Silk