Problem
The Modern World Since 1900, Professor Peter Parides
Study Guide: Introduction/Chapter 1-The Birth of the Modern World
These are the key concepts, terms, and questions that you need to focus on for this chapter:
1. Why do we study history?
2. When did the modern age begin?
3. In what ways the modern world is different from what preceded it.
4. Why modernity can be considered an "alteration of consciousness."
5. Why did the modern age begin with the Renaissance?
6. What the Bubonic Plague is, and why it sparked the beginning of the Renaissance.
7. What happened during the Renaissance.
8. What the Black Death was.
9. What Humanism is.
10. Who Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) was, and what he contributed to the Renaissance.
11. Who Laura Cereta was, and what she contributed to the Renaissance.
12. What happened during the Scientific Revolution.
13. Who Claudius Ptolemy was, and what was his theory of the universe.
14. Who Nicolaus Copernicus was, and what he contributed to the Scientific Revolution. Who Galileo Gallili was, and what he contributed to the Scientific Revolution.
15. Who Isaac Newton was, and what he contributed to the Scientific Revolution.
16. Who René Descartes was, and what he contributed to the debate between faith and reason. Who Blaise Pascal was, and what he contributed to the debate between faith and reason. Who Immanuel Kant was, and how he described the Enlightenment.
17. Who John Locke was, and what he contributed to the Enlightenment.
18. Who Jean-Jacques Rousseau was, and what he contributed to the Enlightenment. What caused the French Revolution.
19. Who Napoleon Bonaparte was, and how he became the leader of France.
20. What the Napoleonic Code was, and why it was important.