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AP Euro Industrial Revoliton
Industrial Revolution Ids
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History
10th Grade
03/02/2008

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Emile Zola

Definition

 author of J'accuse (i accuse)

Dreyfus Affair

against conservatives

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Dreyfus Affair
Definition
  • A spy was in the French military giving info to the Germans
  • They suspected Dreyfus b/c he was Jewish and tried and convicted him with false evidence
  • Emphasized the left right split
  • Right/Conservatives (church, royalists, military)=GUILTY
  • left/liberals = INNOCENT
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General Boulanger

Definition

After a political and economic downturn in France, Boulonger looked like the savior but . . .

he ended up being sought after by the government and eventually committing suicide

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Auguste Comte
Definition

Positivism

 

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Positivism
Definition

human intellectual development cumulates in science

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Charles Darwin
Definition

author of On the Origin of the Species and Descent of man

survival of the fittest

explained evolution

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Gregor mendel
Definition

heredity

Austrian Monk

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Herbert Spencer
Definition

Famous advocate of evolutionary ethics

competition

social darwinism

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Thomas Henry Huxley
Definition

great defender of Darwinism

chief opponent of social darwinism

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Social Darwinism
Definition
belief that darwin's theory of survival of the fittest justified treating the lower classes poorly, not helping the less fortunate, and prejudice against specific races
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Wilhelm Roentgen
Definition
x-rays
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Albert Einstein
Definition

relativity

time space are a combined continum

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Werner Heisenberg
Definition
weird stuff happens to atoms = ? the physical universe
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Sigmunt Freud
Definition

author of Interpretation of Dreams

father of phsychology

dreams were subconscious wishes

id, superego, ego

humans sexual beings

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Carl Jung
Definition

Freud's apprentice then critic

less sexually driven

collective memories from past generations

collective + memories = soul

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David Freidrich Strauss

Definition

doubted Christianity

Life of Jesus

 

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Friedrich Nietzeche
Definition

" God is dead "

Christianity glorified weakness

Thus Spake Zarathustra

ubermensch: perfect human, embody heroism and greatness

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Charles Lyell

Definition

earth is much older than it seems

scientific dating, not bible

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