Exam 24: The Birth of Modern European Thought

What was the first important work by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche?

In the late nineteenth century,the conflict between church and state centered on ________.

Which of the following became a major factor in the emerging mass politics?

Which of the following groups or institutions acted as the primary forum for feminist writers to advance their ideas at the turn of the century?

The first genuinely realistic novel is considered to be ________.

Max Weber believed that ________.

Explain how higher literacy rates worked to provide consumers for the Second Industrial Revolution.

Who believed that the struggle in nature demonstrated how human beings should not behave?

Skeptics who questioned the morality of Christianity cited ________.

Uniformitarianism,developed by Charles Lyell,is based on the idea that natural laws __________.

The salafiyya movement believed that ________.

Which of the following modern-day practices would the social Darwinists of the nineteenth century be most likely to support?

The doctrine of papal infallibility was first formally promulgated in ________.

Darwin's Descent of Man ________.

In France,the French Catholic Church and the Third French Republic ________.

Which of these regions of Europe had lower literacy rates in the late 1800s?

Charles Darwin applied the principle of evolution by natural selection to humans in his book ________.

Mass-circulation newspapers,when first introduced,were characterized by ________.

Herbert Spencer and Thomas Huxley were similar in __________.

Friedrich Nietzsche portrayed Christianity as a religion that ________.