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The classical worldview was a time where most believed in polytheism (the belief of many gods) and diversity of religion was not accepted, it was also a time of progress and innovation. Near the end of the classical worldview is when Christianity started to gain popularity and polytheism started to decline, when the Classical era ended much progress was lost.
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During the medieval worldview, Christianity was the main religion and religious diversity was still not common. There was not much progress during the medieval worldview which is why it is sometimes called the dark ages, people were generally closed-minded, and we believed the Earth was the center of the universe.
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The Renaissance was a golden age of progress, renaissance means rebirth, and the world was reborn during this time period. The progress that was lost during the fall of the Classical era was regained and there were many new innovations and inventions, it was an age of ideas and change. Link to Pictures: Google Docs
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The Enlightenment era sought to improve the relationship between the people and their government. This resulted in many revolutions during this worldview, some examples are, the American revolution and the French revolution.
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The Romanticism worldview was the opposite of the Classical worldview. They believed in emotion over reason, freedom of religion, and that decisions should be made by the heart, not the brain.
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Victorianism was named after Queen Victoria of England, Victorian times were all about etiquette and rules. There were rules about everything, how to eat, how to dress, how to talk, there were even some rules on how you were supposed to breathe.
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The modern worldview believed in science, reasoning, and common sense, they believed there was one purpose and that law and order was necessary at all times. They believed that religion had no place in public and was to be a personal thing.
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The postmodern worldview was the opposite of a modern worldview. They welcomed randomness and disorder, they were subjective instead of objective, and they welcomed the diversity of experience.
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Post postmodernism needs a better name, and is the worldview we live in now. We don't know what our beliefs are going to be and we don't know what our social norms are going to become, we get to decide what we are going to do and how we are going to act, Post Postmodernism is a question of what is our world going to become.
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