[HI109] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (22 pages long)
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The long twilight: europe before the great war, 1900-1914. Where does the word europe even come from: greek mythology; perhaps setting of the sun, or pasture land, greeks deemed europe negatively akin to a dark continent. The smallness of europe contributes to many of their advances in the 15th and 16th centuries. The notion of competition is more pronounced due to the segregation of villages because of the mountains. Can we reduce europe to a single people: our answer: european society by 1900 was becoming modern society, the course of the 20th century europe will engage in 3 variants of modernization: The adjective modernity" possessed a protean character jarausch (3) Characteristics of the european world and almost everywhere else in 1500. Natural world people were seen as habing a place in a meaningful created cosmos, pointed to divine purpose. God was similarly present in all aspects of human society.
