AP®︎ European History: Topic 7.5 Practice Test
Prepare for your quiz, test, or the AP exam with focused practice questions on Topic 7.5 of AP European History – The Age of Progress and Modernity.
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Topic 7.5
Question 1 Easy
This question tests the following: KC-3.6.III
Which art movement depicted a darker side of the physical world in the 19th century?
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Topic 7.5: The Age of Progress and Modernity
Thematic Focus: Technological and Scientific InnovationTSI
Scientific and technological innovations have increased efficiency, improved daily life, and shaped human development and interactions, having both intended and unintended consequences.
Learning Objective: Unit 7: Learning Objective F
Explain how science and other intellectual disciplines developed and changed throughout the period from 1815 to 1914.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.II.A
Positivism, or the philosophy that science alone provides knowledge, emphasized the rational and scientific analysis of nature and human affairs.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.III
In the later 19th century, a new relativism in values and the loss of confidence in the objectivity of knowledge led to modernism in intellectual and cultural life.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.III.A
Philosophy largely moved from rational interpretations of nature and human society to an emphasis on irrationality and impulse, a view that contributed to the belief that conflict and struggle led to progress.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.III.B
Freudian psychology offered a new account of human nature that emphasized the role of the irrational and the struggle between the conscious and subconscious.
Historical Developments: KC-3.6.III.C
Developments in the natural sciences, such as quantum mechanics and Einstein's theory of relativity, undermined the primacy of Newtonian physics as an objective description of nature.
Illustrative Examples specific knowledge students should know & demonstrate
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Georges Sorel
- Henri Bergson
- Max Planck
