Understanding the Complexity of Defining 'Modern'
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What Latin terms do modern and modo derive from?

  • Modus and antiquus
  • Modernus and modo (correct)
  • Modus and modernus
  • Modernus and antiquus
  • Which intellectual tradition locates the onset of the modern in the eighteenth-century secularization of knowledge?

  • Philosophy (correct)
  • History
  • Economics
  • Political Science
  • When did 'modern' first enter the English language?

  • Around the fifteenth century
  • Around the twelfth century (correct)
  • Around the tenth century
  • Around the seventeenth century
  • In what historic event does history and political science periodize the modern era?

    <p>The Treaty of Westphalia</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What transformation did the concept of 'modern' promise by the nineteenth century?

    <p>A qualitative transformation from the past</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What event marks the beginning of the modern era according to economics?

    <p>British Industrial Revolution</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term was 'modern' no longer contrasted with by the mid-nineteenth century?

    <p>Antiquity</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which development is considered a hallmark of modernity as defined by the intellectual traditions mentioned in the text?

    <p>Universalization of schooling and literacy</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Modern' began to function as a keyword in what century?

    <p>Nineteenth century</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did Western intellectuals and their publics promote as the endpoint of colonial 'development'?

    <p>'Progress' based on free labor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What did 'modern' signify by the nineteenth century?

    <p>A temporal and spatial descriptor</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What term did British poet Kipling use to describe the responsibility he felt Westerners had towards other nations?

    <p>'The White Man's Burden'</p> Signup and view all the answers

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