Questão de Humanities and their Technologies #019e354a
As the end of the 19th century approached, expectations for the following century intensified. While many utopias existed, perhaps one of the most evident focused on the potential of the new science, with its inventions and projects. It is no mere coincidence that the country's agenda was dominated by the introduction of a series of inventions. Electric light arrived in Brazil rapidly, along with the telegraph, the telephone, and the cinematograph. In the area of transportation, the steam train was replaced by the electric train, which witnessed the arrival of the automobile and even the airplane.
In Brazil, the events described took on a political connotation by being linked to
strategic expansion of imperialism.
gradual rise of mercantilism.
secularism in education.
The return of absolutism.
Republican vision of the nation.
Explicação Oficial / Explicações da Comunidade
Analysis of the Historical Context
The correct answer is option A. E) Republican vision of the nation.
1. Analysis of the Historical Context
The text describes the period from the late 19th to the early 20th century in Brazil. The fundamental historical landmark that defines this period is the Proclamation of the Republic, in 1889The question asks to identify the "political connotation" that the events described (the arrival of new technologies) have acquired.
2. The Worldview of the New Republic
The First Brazilian Republic, in its early stages, needed to assert and legitimize itself as a superior and more advanced regime than the recently deposed Monarchy. To this end, its defenders adopted a discourse strongly associated with the ideas of... modernity, progress and science.
- Breaking with the Past: The Empire was often portrayed as ancient, agrarian, and backward. The Republic, in turn, was meant to be the future: urban, industrial, and scientific. * Influence of Positivism: Positivist ideology, with its motto "Order and Progress" (which is on the Brazilian flag), was very influential among the military and republican elites. Positivism advocated science as the only source of true knowledge and technological progress as the path to the evolution of society.
In this context, the arrival of inventions such as electric light, the telephone, the automobile, and the electric train was not seen merely as a technical novelty. These inventions were a materialization of the republican promiseThey were living proof that the new regime was, in fact, placing Brazil in the "time of certainties" and on the path to progress.
3. Evaluation of Other Alternatives
- A) Strategic expansion of imperialism: Incorrect. Although Brazil was embedded in a context of global capitalism and imperialism, the connotation internal and policy One of the key inventions was nation-building, not submission to a foreign imperial power. * B) Gradual rise of mercantilism: Incorrect. Mercantilism is an economic doctrine from the 16th to the 18th centuries. The period described is that of the consolidation of industrial capitalism. * C) Secularism of education: Incorrect. The separation of Church and State was, in fact, a republican agenda, but the text does not deal with education or religion, but rather with technology. * D) Resumption of absolutism: Incorrect. The period marks the end of the Monarchy (which was constitutional, not absolutist) and the beginning of the Republic.
4. Conclusion
The events described in the text took on a strong political connotation by being directly linked to republican vision of the nationwhich was based on the promise of modernization, scientific advancement and progress, in opposition to what was perceived as the backwardness of the monarchical regime.