Age of Reason

Examples of Age of Reason in the following topics:

• Age and Participation

  • People between the ages of thirty-five and sixty-five are the most politically active.
  • People at this stage of life are more likely than younger people to have established homes, hold steady jobs, and be settled into communities.
  • People under the age of thirty are among the least involved in mainstream forms of participation, as younger people often lack the money and time to participate.
  • The youth vote contributed to the success of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in 2008 and 2012, as young volunteers provided countless hours of campaign support.
  • Barack Obama's presidential campaigns were successful partly as a result of youth participation.

• The Role of Age

  • Age is an important factor in U.S. politics because there is a correlation between age and rates of political participation and because it is a determining factor in the issues people care about.
  • The lower voting rates of young people in the U.S. help explain why things like Medicare and Social Security in the U.S. are facing looming crises—the elderly will retain many of the benefits of these programs and are unwilling to allow them to be changed even though young people will be the ones to suffer the consequences of these crises.
  • Its mission is to improve the quality of life for retired people and people over the age of 50.
  • Its total revenue in 2006 was approximately $1 billion, of which $23 million was spent on lobbying.
  • Obama's ability to focus on these issues and reach out to young people is seen as one of the reasons for his success in the 2008 presidential election .

• The Stone Age

  • The Stone Age is the first of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
  • The Stone Age lasted roughly 3.4 million years, from 30,000 BCE to about 3,000 BCE, and ended with the advent of metalworking.
  • The art of the Stone Age represents the first accomplishments in human creativity, preceding the invention of writing.
  • The advent of metalworking in the Bronze Age brought additional media available for use in making art, an increase in stylistic diversity, and the creation of objects that did not have any obvious function other than art.
  • Create a timeline of the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic Periods of the Stone Age, giving a brief description of the art from each period

• Greek Dark Ages

  • The Greek Dark Ages were ushered in by a period of violence and characterized by the disruption of Greek cultural progress.
  • The Late Bronze Age collapse, or Age of Calamities, was a transition in the Aegean Region, Eastern Mediterranean, and Southwestern Asia that took place from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age.
  • The palace economy of the Aegean Region that had characterized the Late Bronze Age was replaced, after a hiatus, by the isolated village cultures of the Greek Dark Ages, a period that lasted for more than 400 years.
  • None of the Mycenaean palaces of the Late Bronze Age survived, with the possible exception of the Cyclopean fortifications on the Acropolis of Athens.
  • Migrations, invasions, and destruction during the end of the Bronze Age (c. 1200 BCE).

• Art of the Bronze Age

  • The Bronze Age saw the birth of civilization and the development of advanced cultures in Europe, the Near East, and East Asia.
  • The Bronze Age is part of the three-age system of archaeology, which divides human technological prehistory into three periods: the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
  • The Bronze Age took place circa 3,300-1,200 B.C. and is characterized by the use of copper and its alloy bronze as the chief hard materials in the manufacturing of implements and weapons.
  • Bronze Age cultures differed in their development of the first writing.
  • The Atlantic Bronze Age was defined by a number of distinct regional centers of metal production, unified by a regular maritime exchange of some of their products.

• Normal distribution exercises

  • The mean score for Verbal Reasoning section was 462 with a standard deviation of 119, and the mean score for the Quantitative Reasoning was 584 with a standard deviation of 151.
  • Friends Leo and Mary both completed the Hermosa Beach Triathlon, where Leo competed in the Men, Ages 30 - 34 group while Mary competed in the Women, Ages 25 - 29 group.
  • The finishing times of the Men, Ages 30 - 34 group has a mean of 4313 seconds with a standard deviation of 583 seconds.
  • The finishing times of the Women, Ages 25 - 29 group has a mean of 5261 seconds with a standard deviation of 807 seconds.
  • In Exercise 3.4 we saw two distributions for triathlon times: N(µ = 4313,σ = 583) for Men, Ages 30 - 34 and N(µ = 5261,σ = 807) for the Women, Ages 25 - 29 group.

• The Expansion of Europe

  • The Age of Discovery, also known as the Age of Exploration and the Great Navigations, was a period in European history from the early 15th century to the early 17th century.
  • Historians often refer to the Age of Discovery to mean the pioneering period of the Portuguese and Spanish long-distance maritime travels in search of alternative trade routes to the Indies.
  • The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Empire in 1453 was a pivotal reason for European exploration, as trade throughout the Ottoman Empire was difficult and unreliable.
  • This map illustrates the main travels of the Age of Discovery, from 1482-1524.
  • Explain the reasons for the first few European excursions to the New World

• Enlightenment Ideals

  • Centered around the idea that reason is the primary source of authority and legitimacy, the Enlightenment was a philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century.
  • The Age of Enlightenment, also known as the Enlightenment, was a philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe in the 18th century.
  • There is little consensus on the precise beginning of the Age of Enlightenment, with conventional starting points of the beginning of the 18th century (1701) or the middle of the 17th century (1650).
  • The cultural exchange during the Age of Enlightenment ran in both directions across the Atlantic.
  • The prime example of reference works that systematized scientific knowledge in the Age of Enlightenment were universal encyclopedias rather than technical dictionaries.

• Crime and Punishment

  • Crimes were punished harshly during the Middle Ages with torture and executions common place for even the smallest of offenses.
  • There were two different types of trials during medieval times that helped decide whether or not a person was guilty of the crime of which they were accused.
  • By contrast, torturous executions were typically public, and woodcuts of English prisoners being hanged, drawn and quartered show large crowds of spectators, as do paintings of Spanish auto-da-fé executions, in which heretics were burned at the stake.
  • For reasons of public decency, women convicted of high treason were instead burned at the stake.
  • Describe the ways in which crimes were punished in the Middle Ages

• Islamic Glass Making

  • Glassmaking was the most important Islamic luxury arts of the early Middle Ages.
  • For most of the Middle Ages, Islamic luxury glass was the most sophisticated in Eurasia, exported to both Europe and China.
  • For this reason it is often impossible to distinguish between the various centers of production (of which Egypt, Syria, and Persia were the most important), except by scientific analysis of the material, which itself has difficulties.
  • "The Luck of Edenhall," a 13th-century Syrian beaker, in England since the Middle Ages.
  • For most of the Middle Ages, Islamic glass was the most sophisticated in Eurasia, exported to both Europe and China.