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• 1 Modern experience of time

• 1.1 the beautiful age

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• When was the beautiful age?

  the period between 1890 and 1914

• Why did people believe that that life was perfect?

  factories made everything
  new inventions
  quick transport 

• But this 'new brave world'  also had dark sides, what were those dark sides?Explain that it contained the seeds for WW1

  New weapons created: machine gun, tank, gas
                                        ---> arms race (wapenwedloop)
                                       --->  militarism- countires were proud of their big armies, their society becomes more of a military structure
  Nationalism was blooming: envy and tension
  Railroads made it easy to transport armies

• How had the countries prepared for years?

  the arms race (building up huge armies)
  creating military alliances ( bondgenootschhappen)
  making invasion plans --> like Von Schlieffen Plan 

• What were the military alliances?

  - central powers (GER/AUS)
  -the allies (FR/UK/RUS)

• Find three indirect reasons for reinstating the Olympics?

  - New transport made it possible for large parts of the world to join in the competitions
  - Because of work in factories the people had become more interested in sports as a distraction
  - Because of nationalism countries were very much keen on international competitions and sports played an important part in the training of boys for the military.

• How did people think of the period 1890-1914 when they were living in it?

  Generally they thought is was a ok time to live in. There was development in all kinds of technologies and even workers profited from them. Although you had to work very long days for relatively small pay.

• La Belle Epoque is a good example of “every time tells its own histories”. Every, why?

  La Belle Epoque is a good example of “every time tells its own histories”. Every time tells its own histories means that every period reflects on the past differently according to its preoccupations. This is shown in la belle epoque because the story told about that time differs between the period before and after the war. This is because of the preoccupation after the war, with the war. So the war became the “glasses” through which people looked back at the time before the war. And then it appeared as ever so beautiful.
   

• Why was time standardized in 19th century? 

  Because the new railroad system needed a uniform time system for their arrival and departure scedules.

• Why do you think Dutch first adopted greenwhich mean time?

  Back then the Dutch were more oriented on Great-Brittain because of their cooperation in the colonies in East-Asia