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Conflicts/ Church and State Literature Science Reformers Philosophers The Birth of Modern European Thought

WORTH: Who was H.G. Wells? He is considered the Father of Science Fiction Literature SUBJECT: Literature MAIN

WORTH: Who was Victor Hugo? He wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables as well as the famous Han of Iceland SUBJECT: Literature MAIN

WORTH: Who was Honore de Balzac? He wrote The Human Comedy 90 stories about society and its effects on the individual SUBJECT: Literature MAIN

WORTH: Who was Marcel Proust? He wrote Remembrance of Things Past a massive work that takes intestinal fortitude to finish and has a lot to do with madeleines or French cookies SUBJECT: Literature MAIN

WORTH: Who was Claude Henri de Saint-Simon? He was the French writer who influenced August Comte SUBJECT: Literature MAIN

WORTH: What was the Kulturkampf? This is the name given to Bismarck’s program to restrict the Catholic Church SUBJECT: Conflicts Between Church and State MAIN

WORTH: Who was Jules Ferry? He was the French Reformer who sponsored a series of educational laws that replaced religious instruction with civic instruction MAIN SUBJECT: Conflicts Between Church and State

WORTH: Who was Pope Pius IX? He was the Catholic Pope who opposed Italian unification and was forced to flee Rome in 1848 and issued a papal bull rejecting modern science MAIN SUBJECT: Conflicts Between Church and State

WORTH: What were the Wahhabi movement in Saudi Arabia, the Madhist movement in the Sudan, and Sanussiya movement in Libya? These were the Islamic religious movements that rejected modern science and the western world MAIN SUBJECT: Conflicts Between Church and State

WORTH: What was the Education Act of 1902? This was the British Law which allocated government funds for both religious and nonreligious schools and held them to the same standards MAIN SUBJECT: Conflicts Between Church and State

WORTH: Who was J.J. Thomson? He developed the theory of the electron, the “ Plum pudding theory” and the conduction of electricity by gases SUBJECT: Science MAIN

WORTH: Who was Max Planck and the quantum theory of energy? He said that energy was released in packets or released in discrete quantities MAIN SUBJECT: Science

WORTH: Who was Max Weber? He was the German sociologist who regarded the emergence of rationalism as the major development of humanity and believed in bureaucratization MAIN SUBJECT: Science

WORTH: Who were Marie and Pierre Curie? ( She died of radiation poisoning he was run over by a horse drawn carriage) They were the Polish wife and husband scientists who discovered radium MAIN SUBJECT: Science Her notebooks are still radioactive

WORTH: Who was Wilhelm Roentgen? He was the German scientist who discovered X-Rays MAIN SUBJECT: Science

WORTH: Who was Theodore Herzl? He was the publisher of the pamphlet The Jewish State, who lived during the Anti-Semitism that was associated with the Dreyfus Affair SUBJECT: Reformers MAIN

WORTH: What was the Mother’s Protection League? This was the German organization which contended that both married and unmarried mothers required the help of the state MAIN SUBJECT: Reformers

WORTH: Who was Josephine Butler? She was the English reformer who campaigned relentlessly to repeal the Contagious Diseases Act, which dehumanized poor women and prostitutes MAIN SUBJECT: Reformers

WORTH: Who were Karen Horney and Melanie Klein? These were the two distinguished women psycho-analysts who challenged Freud’s views on women MAIN SUBJECT: Reformers

WORTH: Who was Marie Stopes? This was the woman who pioneered the use of contraceptives and her advocacy of contraception in the poor communities of London. ( She forbid her son to ride a bicycle because it would damage his testicles and also made him wear a skirt until he was 11.) MAIN SUBJECT: Reformers

WORTH: Who was John Maynard Keynes? He was the economist and member of the Bloomsbury group who challenged economic theories and offered government assistance to stimulate the economy ( sound familiar) SUBJECT: Philosophers MAIN

WORTH: Who was Leo XIII? He was the Pope who declared that employers pay a fair wage, permit them to unionize, and proposed that modern society be organized in corporate groups MAIN SUBJECT: Philosophers

WORTH: Who was Karl Lueger? He was the Anti-Semitic mayor of Vienna who influenced many Austrians to join the Christian Socialist Party. ( Influenced Hitler and the birth of the Nazis) MAIN SUBJECT: Philosophers

WORTH: Who was Count Arthur de Gobineau? He was the reactionary French diplomat that stated in his four volume essay that the decline of western civilization was caused by the degeneration of the Aryan Race MAIN SUBJECT: Philosophers

WORTH: Who was August Comte? French Philosopher who was influenced by St. Simon and was the founder of positivism, and considered to be the Father of Modern Sociology MAIN SUBJECT: Philosophers