HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Ancient Greek, Industrial Revolution, Age Of Enlightenment
1 Nov 2017
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How the west has impacted the rest of the world (moreso in the last two centuries than before that) Very few places in the world that do not have common characteristics. Two centuries ago this was not the case (i. e. cellphones: diversity, however, striking similarity in government, economics, growing even more similar as time progresses. Modern - prior to 18th century, negative connotation. Modern was associated with the rejection of the renaissance & classical learning (ancient greek, roman, egyptian, rediscovery) Modern - 19th century, progress", de ne a new epoch called the modern , seen as inevitable and to be welcomed: west is modern, outside of the west traditional countries are backward, the steam engine. The previous set of de nitions were developed in the 19th and 20th century by. Helped to justify why was the west was more advanced than other areas of the globe and explain how the west was somehow special.
