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“1800-1900: The Frustrations of Progress” is an example of labeling of a historical period. Let’s play with some alternatives by defining a new periodization label. Devise your own label for the same time period. The 19th century was laden with many advancements in areas encompassing urbanization and industrialization. Along that same note, the impact of those advancements led for empires in Europe and the U.S. to grow and expand into various territories across the globe (either by

Read the following quote, “After all, this is a world history that places empire at the heart of modernity and violence at the heart of empire building, two points that seem particularly apposite at this moment in global politics.” How does “empire” relate to your view of modernity? Empire seems to relate to modernity in that it is one of many political entities (such as kingdoms and countries) that instills common customs for its people. In other

Explain modernity as both an era of time and a quality. As the concept of modernity can be interpreted in various ways, my explanations are as follows: When describing modernity as an era of time, (at least as Amesto’s history book interprets on page 739) it is the era in which the world has started to accept two (one or the other or a little of both) schools of coexisting thought: religious and scientific. The reason