Which writers recorded old German folk tales to reveal a traditional German national spirit?
What is Grimm brothers
100
Utilitarianism
What is the “greatest good for the greatest number”
100
Opening of the Salon des Reuses (art project by the jury of the Official Paris Salon)
What is 1863
100
Who began the “God is Dead” movement?
What is Nietzsche
100
What was the first nation to establish a national postal system?
What is Britain
200
In 1850 Herbert Spencer wrote a novel called Social Statistics. What was it about?
What is the importance of individual freedom and the inevitability of human progress.
200
Movement in which the nation-state is regarded as paramount for the realization of social, economic, and cultural aspirations of a people.
What is nationalism?
200
Thomas Edison invents the incandescent lamp
What is 1879
200
Why was organized religion under attack from the secular state?
Because of the government’s expanding role in education
200
In the late 19th century, which countries awarded suffrage to all men?
What is Spain and Belgium
300
Classic account describing his travels and discoveries during the five-year journey.
What is Charles Darwin’s Voyage of the Beagle
300
Shown in Charles Lyell's work, this theory says that the natural processes that change the earth in the present have operated in the past at the same gradual rate.
What is Uniformitarianism
300
Irish National Theater established
What is 1901
300
Why was Christianity under attack?
New scientific theories (Darwinism, psychoanalysis) threatened traditional religious values and views of man.
300
1901 Max Planck introduces this scientific advancement
What is quantum physics
400
reveals a law of three stages that govern human development conducted by Comte
What is Course of Positive Philosophy
400
1860’s Louis Pasteur’s disproof in this theory gave great impetus to improving experimental techniques in microbiology.
What is spontaneous generation
400
Michael Faraday plotted the magnetic field around a conductor carrying an electric current
What is 1821
400
This man argued that the church stands as the foundation of society because all political authority stemmed from God.
Who is Joseph de Maistre
400
July 1898 the Curies announced the discovery of a new chemical element
What is polonium
500
The creator of socialism
Who is Auguste Comte
500
A person who believes that God created the universe and then abandoned it
What is a deist
500
Samuel Morse helped found the National Academy of Design in New York City
What is 1825
500
In 1835, Friedrich Strauss wrote this novel in which he sought to explain the miracles of the Gospel narratives as a series of myths.