The French Revolution was an unstable‚ blood-filled time. With 20‚000 sent to the guillotine and an equal number to prison‚ it is not hard to find importance but rather to find meaning. The most crucial thing to look for in the revolution is justification‚ reasons that excuse or bring significance to the deaths of many. John Locke‚ a philosophe of the time‚ may have argued that a leader who does not provide his people with inalienable rights is grounds for dismissal in the form of regicide1
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1) The Napoleonic Revolution “The transformation of French society that followed the fall of the bastille to a Parisian crowd in 1789 changed not only France but Europe forever.” “Warfare too was transformed. The French Revolution realized the ideal of the nation in arms‚ and so nationalism added its force to the western emphasis on discipline. Common soldiers were now expected to display the same kind of commitment once reserved only for officers‚ and the new loyalties of the rank and file influenced
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The French Revolution The years before the French Revolution (which started in 1789 AD.) were ones of vast‚ unexpected change and confusion. One of the changes was the decline of the power of the nobles‚ which had a severe impact on the loyalty of some of the nobles to King Louis XVI. Another change was the increasing power of the newly established middle class‚ which would result in the monarchy becoming obsolete. The angry and easily manipulated peasants‚ who were used by the bourgeoisie
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French Revolution Questions The Outbreak of the Revolution: 1) French society around 1789 was split into three groups of people or the Three Estates. The First Estate consisted of the clergy or the leaders of the church. The Second Estate were the nobles who were highly privileged. The Third and final estate consisted of peasants‚ city workers‚ and the middle class‚ all of which were taxes heavily and underprivileged. 2) The complains of the Third Estate were they were being taxed to heavily
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Explain the key features of ‘The Terror’ The Terror was a phase during the French Revolution when many people of France were executed for supposedly being ‘Enemies of the Revolution’. The Committee of Public Safety were behind most of the deaths and they were lead mainly by Maximilien de Robespierre. The greatest factors of the Terror were the revolution itself‚ internal political rivalry‚ social and economic problems‚ wars‚ leadership‚ violence and the Thermidorian reaction. These can be broadly
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Cornell Notes | Topic/Objective: French Revolution | Name: Sam Roberts | | | Class/Period: Western World History | | | Date: | Essential Question: What were the causes‚ significant events‚ and results of the French Revolution? | | Questions: | Notes: | 1. What were the Three Estates? | a. First Estate- the estate made up of members of the clergy that made up less than 1% of the population‚ owned around 10% of the land and paid a 2% income tax. | | b. Second Estate- the
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Scientific Revolution Aristotle and Claudius Ptolemy 16th century science was based on their conclusions Geocentric model: Earth is motion less other planets revolve around it Epicycles- Plotlemy’s idea circles within circles Crystalline spheres: heavens are made of a weightless substance allowing them to move Medieval thinkiners used Aristotle and Ptolemy ideology into a Christian framework Thomas Aquinas uses Unmoved Mover concept to confirm G-d’s existence Medieval thinkers believed their hypothesis
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The French Revolution greatly inspired feelings of rebellion among the Haitian people‚ which sparked the Haitian Revolution. The Haitian revolution was brought upon by the obvious oppression towards the people of Haiti but the French Revolution caused the beginnings of the inevitable uprisings by the complete disregard of the African’s natural rights that were stated in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen. As well as inequality between social classes and Napoleon Bonaparte’s dishonored
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FRENCH REVOLUTION Q.1) Explain the following terms:- a) Guillotine Ans) The guillotine is a device consisting of two poles and a blade with which a person is beheaded. It was named after Dr .Guillotine who invented it. b) Subsistence crisis Ans) the population of France rose from about 23 million in 1715 to 2 8million in 1789.This led to a rapid increase in the demand for food grains. Production of grains could not keep pace with the demand. So the price of bread which
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1. Discuss the historical foundations of human rights with reference to the Enlightenment and Industrial Revolution. The foundation of the human rights in reference to the enlightenment period began with the birth of “secular universalism” which assaulted the Roman Catholicism politically and intellectually. After 30 years of war and violation of human rights‚ the overthrown of the Catholic Church‚ and the raise of the English new Bill of Rights that granted more personal freedoms‚ human rights
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