Week 9 Study Terms

Question 1

H.G. Wells

Answer 1

Author of “The Time Machine”
A socialist and embracer of technology, significant in enforcing the importance of the teaching of history, opposing national patriotism in history

Question 2

The Time Machine

Answer 2

H.G. Wells’ novel, popularized the idea of time being a “fourth dimension” and being able to travel in time

Question 3

Looking Backward

Answer 3

Edward Bellamy’s Novel
Predicts a socialist utopia in the year 2000, inspired a political movement, the creation of socialist communes and dozens of sequels, imitators, satires, and responses

Question 4

Historicism

Answer 4

Basic belief that the present can be explained by the past (all phenomena can be described or explained historically)

Question 5

Social Darwinism

Answer 5

The theory that human societies are subject to the same laws of natural selection that Darwin observed in nature
Significance: Wells’ book “The Time Machine” draws on this concept, imagining that rich and poor might eventually evolve into separate species (Eloi and Morlocks)

Question 6

Leopold von Ranke

Answer 6

A German historian and a founder of professional, source-based history
Pioneered the research seminar and the PhD degree in history