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The Birth of Modern European
Thought
Literature
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Conflicts/
Church and State
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Science
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Reformers
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Philosophers
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Who was H.G. Wells?
He is considered the Father of
Science Fiction Literature.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Literature

Who was Victor Hugo?
MAIN
He wrote The Hunchback of
Notre Dame, Les Miserables as well as the famous Han of
Iceland .
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Literature

MAIN
Who was Honore de Balzac?
He wrote The Human Comedy
90 stories about society and its effects on the individual.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Literature

Who was Marcel Proust?
MAIN
He wrote Remembrance of
Things Past a massive work that takes intestinal fortitude to finish and has a lot to do with madeleines or French cookies.
Literature
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100 200 300 400 500
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Who was Claude Henri de Saint-Simon?
He was the French writer who influenced August Comte.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Literature

MAIN
What was the Kulturkampf?
This is the name given to
Bismarck’s program to restrict the Catholic Church.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Conflicts Between
Church and State

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Who was Jules Ferry?
He was the French Reformer who sponsored a series of educational laws that replaced religious instruction with civic instruction.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Conflicts Between
Church and State

Who was Pope Pius IX?
MAIN
He was the Catholic Pope who opposed Italian unification and was forced to flee Rome in 1848 and issued a papal bull rejecting modern science.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Conflicts Between
Church and State

What were the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia, the Madhist
MAIN
movement in the Sudan, and
Sanussiya movement in Libya?
These were the Islamic religious movements that rejected modern science and the western world.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Conflicts Between
Church and State

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What was the Education Act of
1902?
This was the British Law which allocated government funds for both religious and nonreligious schools and held them to the same standards.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Conflicts Between
Church and State

Who was J.J. Thomson?
MAIN
He developed the theory of the electron, the “ Plum pudding theory” and the conduction of electricity by gases.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Science

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Who was Max Planck and the quantum theory of energy?
He said that energy was released in packets or released in discrete quantities.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Science

Who was Max Weber?
MAIN
He was the German sociologist who regarded the emergence of rationalism as the major development of humanity and believed in bureaucratization.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Science

Who were Marie and Pierre Curie? (
She died of radiation poisoning he was run over by a horse drawn carriage)
MAIN
They were the Polish wife and husband scientists who discovered radium.
Her notebooks are still radioactive
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Science

MAIN
Who was Wilhelm Roentgen?
He was the German scientist who discovered
X-Rays.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Science

MAIN
Who was Theodore Herzl?
He was the publisher of the pamphlet The Jewish State, who lived during the Anti-Semitism that was associated with the
Dreyfus Affair.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Reformers

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What was the Mother’s Protection
League?
This was the German organization which contended that both married and unmarried mothers required the help of the state.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Reformers

Who was Josephine Butler?
MAIN
She was the English reformer who campaigned relentlessly to repeal the
Contagious Diseases Act, which dehumanized poor women and prostitutes.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Reformers

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Who were Karen Horney and
Melanie Klein?
These were the two distinguished women psycho-analysts who challenged Freud’s views on women.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Reformers

Who was Marie Stopes?
MAIN
This was the woman who pioneered the use of contraceptives and her advocacy of contraception in the poor communities of London.
( She forbid her son to ride a bicycle because it would damage his testicles and also made him wear a skirt until he was 11.)
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Reformers

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Who was John Maynard Keynes?
He was the economist and member of the Bloomsbury group who challenged economic theories and offered government assistance to stimulate the economy ( sound familiar)
SUBJECT: Philosophers
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100 200 300 400 500

Who was Leo XIII?
MAIN
He was the Pope who declared that employers pay a fair wage, permit them to unionize, and proposed that modern society be organized in corporate groups.
Philosophers
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100 200 300 400 500
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Who was Karl Lueger?
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He was the Anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna who influenced many Austrians to join the
Christian Socialist Party. (
Influenced Hitler and the birth of the Nazis).
Philosophers
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100 200 300 400 500
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Who was Count Arthur de
Gobineau?
He was the reactionary French diplomat that stated in his four volume essay that the decline of western civilization was caused by the degeneration of the Aryan
Race.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Philosophers

Who was August Comte?
MAIN
French Philosopher who was influenced by St. Simon and was the founder of positivism, and considered to be the
Father of Modern Sociology.
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100 200 300 400 500
SUBJECT: Philosophers