10th February 2004, 3:18 PM
[QUOTE]I've just never ONCE heard of that era EVER called that... EVER. Even if my history classes are lacking (which they ARE), I would think I'd have heard it called such elsewhere.[/QUOTE
Then as I said your history classes were poor and you don't read much of any history about the 1700s.
Oh, it was an age of revolution, but the revolutions were because of enlightenment ideals so The Enlightenment is a much better name than "The Age of Revolutions" or something like that. And it's not exactly some technical term no one except history professors use or something like that...
As for Metric, they teach it for science class (I remember learning about centimeters in first grade) because science is obviously a lot easier to do with Metric... but that doesn't affect the fact that for everything else (just about) we use Standard...
I guess I'm fortunate we have a decent school system then... not the best ever or anything, but decent.
Then as I said your history classes were poor and you don't read much of any history about the 1700s.
Oh, it was an age of revolution, but the revolutions were because of enlightenment ideals so The Enlightenment is a much better name than "The Age of Revolutions" or something like that. And it's not exactly some technical term no one except history professors use or something like that...
As for Metric, they teach it for science class (I remember learning about centimeters in first grade) because science is obviously a lot easier to do with Metric... but that doesn't affect the fact that for everything else (just about) we use Standard...
I guess I'm fortunate we have a decent school system then... not the best ever or anything, but decent.
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