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La Belle Epoque
Shaking up the World!
Paris 1900
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Charles Darwin
Darwin
• Wrote “The Descent of Man”–Puts forth the theory of evolution
• Disrupts religion• Science can be used to explain things, not faith
–World was simply “matter in motion”–Survival of the fittest
Albert Einstein
Einstein
• Universe was not finite and did NOT follow the laws of cause and effect–Things didn’t always happen for a
reason–Theories help propel space
discoveries
Sigmund Freud
Freud
• Stated that behaviors come from feelings and the unconscious– “Rational” people (Westerners) act on
impulses, just like “primitive” people (Non-Westerners).
– Helped with the understanding of mental disabilities
Second Industrial Revolution
• Electric Street Cars
Cars
• Mercedes–Perfects
engine
• Henry Ford–Assembly Line:
reduces time to make a car from 12 hours to 1.5 hours
Results
• Standard of Living goes up
• People live longer– Louis Pasteur –
micro-organisms cause disease
Optimism• If Westerners were all of this and
progressing, then they would continue to dominate – Darwin’s theory
• Europeans believed that they would control the entire world