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Jan 1, 1450
Renaissance
The Renaissance was a fine art movement that boosted culture in societies. Before the Renaissance art was poor and crude while literature was mainly religious text. The Renaissance modernized these arts. -
Jan 1, 1500
Mercantilism
Mercantilism is a economic policy aimed towards accumulating monetary reserves through a positive balance of trade, and it was caused by frequent wars and motivated colonial expansion. It dominated Western Europe during the 16th and 18th centuries. -
Liberalism
Liberalism was a view that was founded on liberty and equality. It first began in the Age of Enlightenment. It opposed governements that were absolutism, because they believed that men had rights that the government could not violate. -
Laissez Faire
A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role possible in the economy. It believes that an individual is the basic unit in society and has the natural right to freedom. It also states that the physical order of nature is a self regulating system, and corporations are creature of the state. -
Encyclopaedists
This was a movement to allow intelligence to be easier branched out to more people in the world, they created the enclopedia, which is replaced by wikipedia today. -
Atheism
Atheism is the belief that there is no god(s) and humans were made from a pure coincidence. -
Nationalism
Nationalism is a sense of love for their country and being willing to sacrifce for it. It began around the 18th Century, and sparked many rebellions and revolutions. -
Socialism
Starting around the 18th century, socialism is an economic system in which major industries and companies are controlled by the government rather than individual people. It was started by the working class who disliked the effects of industrialisation and private property on soceity. -
Enlightenment
Enlightenment was the way of rational and intellectual thinking involving reason instead of blindly following tradition. Enlightened thinkers questioned the authority of Church -
Modernism
Beggining in the early nineteenth century and ending in the early twentieth century, modernism is the philosophy of art and cultural trends in modern society all the while rejecting enlightenment and religion. -
Romanticism
Romanticism was a idea that revolted against normal social and political behaviors during the enlightenment's popularity. It was unrational and majorly impacted the arts (music, books, etc.) -
Darwinism
This is the belief of evolution. Darwinists believe that animals become much different throughout time via natural selection and their habitat. For a long time these people were shunned because this went against what many religions say. -
Realism
Realist accept the facts of life and go for practicality and literary truth -
Impressionism
Impressionism was started in the 19th century by a group of French painters who pictured appearences by strokes of unmixed colors to give off the impression of reflected light. -
Positivism
A philosophy of science that believed that only information derived from mathematical and sensory treatments were the source of all authoritarian knowledge, and that there is only truth science. -
Humanism
Humanism is a philosophical view that emphasizes the value and agency of human beings. Humanists prefer critical thinking and evidence over doctorine or faith. -
Victorian Era
The Victorian era was a period of rule by Queen Victoria. It was a period of peace and wealth for Britain. Art and and literature flourished during this time. -
Realism
Realists favored atrributes of accepting life, practicality, and truth. It started as a reaction to Romanticism, and artists during this time focused on everyday life rather than idealization. -
Marxism
A method of worldview based on materialistic development of historical development, and also an analysis of conflict within society. Started in the mid 19th century, by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. -
Pragmatism
Philosphical movement that began in America that rejected how thinking could described or represented reality. They thought that thinking could see into the future and solve problems -
Post-Romanticism
A musical movement after romanticism died out that involved music based off of Romanticism
