Problem
A. What were the characteristics of Renaissance Humanism?
B. Why did Renaissance Humanism matter in the history of the modern West?
C. What were the characteristics of the Scientific Revolution?
D. What is heliocentrism and why did it matter in the history of the Modern West?
E. Why did the Scientific Revolution matter in the history of the modern West?
F. What were the characteristics of the Enlightenment?
G. What is the great contradiction of the Enlightenment?
H. In France in the 18th century, the state was run by three Estates. What were those estates and how they work to maintain the status quo?
I. What was the connection between the Enlightenment and the French Revolution?
J. How is the guillotine a metaphor for the complicated nature of the Enlightenment?
K. What was the difference between Nationalism in the first half of the 19th century and Nationalism in second half of the 19th century?
L. What is the significance of the rise of Nationalism by the end of the 19th century? (list four impacts with explanation)
M. What were the causes of the Industrial Revolution?
N. What were the consequences of the Industrial Revolution?
O. What natural law did Adam Smith claim to have discovered that explained the difficulties workers were experiences during the Industrial Revolution?
P. What natural law did Thomas Malthus claim to have discovered that explained the difficulties workers were experiences during the Industrial Revolution?
Q. What natural law did David Ricardo claim to have discovered that explained the difficulties workers were experiences during the Industrial Revolution?
R. How did Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill change the way we define what it means to be "liberal"?
S. When Karl Marx sat down to understand how the Industrial Revolution had happened, he argued that all history was shaped by economic determinism. What did he mean?
T. What did Karl Marx argue were the tree "opiates" that were keeping workers from making a revolution?
U. How did Economics help to explain Europe's embrace of Imperialism at the end of the 19th century?
V. How did military and national defense issues play a role in explaining Europe's embrace of Imperialism at the end of the 19th century?
W. How did racism play a role in explaining Europe's embrace of Imperialism at the end of the 19th century and how did religion and pseudo-science help?
X. What uncertainties in European culture set the stage for the First World War?