Unit 3 Urbanization & Industrialization

Recapping--- A main event during this time was that the people were switching from steam to steel as the main energy source. Steel and steam lead to "stronger bridges, taller buildings, and faster railway cars", which was why it's called the Second Industrial Revolution. When some countries started advancing more than others it was cause they had Britain's lead to follow aaand they had more abundant resources. Urbanization means the growth of cities. Mass production made expensive things more affordable to the lower and middle class. New inventions of technology lead to more job positionsin that field. Chemicals started being used for soap and perfume and medicine. Electricity and light bulbs obviously changed the world by making the streets a safer place to be at night time and by getting rid of gas lights it made the air easier to breathe. The assembly line played a big part in the production of cars. Major advances in communication were due to the inventions of the telegraph, the telephone, and the radio. Stocks were invented eventually, which is when someone buys a little piece of a company. Krupp and Rockefeller were called captains of industry and robber barons because some people admired their amazing skills in business but others thought that what they were doing (eliminating all competition) was unfair. and then social changes happened, like the way people thought and what they did with their spare time, that sort of thing. some of the main differeces were in the home, like children were s'posed to be "seen but not heard" and women had to stick to the unofficial laws of the "cult of domesticity". it meant that women should stay at home and play house-wife all the time, and decorate and clean and crank out kids to take care of. if she had a job, society took it as that the famliy was poor ('cause the dad wasn't making enough money to support the fam bam). there was this big old competition to get rich and high in status: the richer you are, the more people think of you as their "betters". You were pretty much guarenteed satisfaction in the popularity-department if you covered every squate inch of your walls and furniture with gold or embroidery, like, decoration to the max, because that was the style. Another humongous social change was romanticism, where all the different kinds of art (plays, books, paintings, you name it) were based on exaggerated emotion and completely went against the Enlightenment. The laaaast major change of the late 19th early 20th centuries were medical. YAY for anesthesia, 'cause before 1840 they didn't use it at all! Florence Nightengale and others started cleaning up hospitals after the discovered that geeerms are what cause diseases, and all sorts of vaccines were being created, diseases linked back to the source or cures are found for them (like for cholera, They also found out that Malaria and Yellow Fever are caused by mosquitos.) As a result, people started bathing alot more frequently and changing their clothes and hospitals started cleaning their tools and having staff wash their hands.



Revisit and Reflect---I would absolutely love to live in Heidelberg again!!!! It's so much different than in the States. I mean, you can walk down the street and so many people are out riding bikes ooor walking their dogs (they're alot more animal friendly there) and the environment is cleaner 'cause that's something really important to Germans, it's really nice. There're bakeries in the town and big old churches and soooo much is different. One of my absolute favorite places was downtown Heidelberg where the Heidelberg Castle is---a reeeeal live castle, and the Heidelberg bridge that crosses over the Neckar River, it's sooooo pretty and totally iconic of the rest of the country :) The castle's been struck by lightning and has the biggest barrell in the world and's just full of so much history, it's theeeeee best. Heidelberg also has an international school (H.I.S.) which would have been amazing to go to. It was started not too long ago and began with only nine students and a rented kindergarten room. The lessons are taught in English but students have to start learning to speak german when they're in first grade. The one and only bad thing about living there would be if you can't adjust to the cultural differences 'cause you reeeally really have to make the adjustment, you can't just tromp around disrespecting someone's laws and ways of life and things like that when you're in THEIR country, besides being extremely dumb and disrespectful, Germans and alot of the Turkish people that live in germany have uber negative stereotypes about Americans; it's the stupid one's that go there that make it worse for everyone else.