Intellectual and Cultural History Notes

1. Changes in religious thought and institution
• Religious conversion
• Martin Luther- The Reformation
2. Secularization of learning and culture
• Learning and culture used to be centered around religion and over time it strayed away from that and focused on other topics
• Women were not educated the way men were
3. Scientific and technological developments and their consequences
• Agriculture
• Machines taking over the jobs of people
• Certain pesticides used on crops are harmful
• Industrial Revolution
• Production of weapons
• Supports and feeds war
4. Major trends in literature and the arts
• The Renaissance
5. Intellectual and cultural developments and their relationship to social values and political events
• Intellectual and cultural developments cause social values and political events
• When intellectual or cultural developments occur social values and political events are caused
6. Developments in social, economic, and political thought, including ideologies characterized as “-isms,” such as socialism, liberalism, nationalism
• Colonialism
• Federalism
• Communism
• Capitalism
7. Developments in literacy, education, and communication
• The invention of the telephone
• The Pony Express
• People could read and be educated which allowed them to specialize in different things and create laws to govern society
8. The diffusion of new intellectual concepts among different social groups
• How new ideas and technology are spread throughout the world and develop
9. Changes in elite and popular culture, such as the development of new attitudes toward religion, the family, work, and ritual
• Popular culture- what people like
10. Impact of global expansion on European culture
• European culture has affected much of the world and has diffused to many different parts of the world