AP European History / Unit 7: 19th-Century Perspectives and Political Developments
7.5 The Age of Progress and Modernity
Notes
New science and thought: Freud (the unconscious), Einstein (relativity), Nietzsche (questioned morality and reason). Advances in medicine (Pasteur, germ theory). Mass politics, mass culture and the women's suffrage movement.
Practice
Freud's theories emphasized:
Psychoanalysis.
Pasteur's germ theory led to:
Microbes cause disease.
Einstein's theory of relativity challenged:
Physics revolution.
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