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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The French Revolution (French: Révolution française; 1789–1799) was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France that had a fundamental impact on French history and on modern history worldwide. Experiencing an economic crisis exacerbated by the Seven Years War and the American Revolutionary War‚ the common people of France became increasingly frustrated by the ineptitude of King Louis XVI and the continued decadence of the aristocracy. This resentment‚ coupled with burgeoning Enlightenment
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The Industrial Revolution was a period where countries became more rural and human dependence on machines grew. It originated in Britain due to high population number and access to coal and ore (Britannica Industrial Revolution). It took place from the late 1700’s to the mid- late 1750’s (History.com). The Industrial Revolution impacted society in many ways specifically industrial workers‚ women‚ and children greatly. New technology was invented and mass produced during this time. The invention
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XVI‚ who was not the brightest star in the sky. He threw many parties without even knowing that he would soon be in big trouble. Everyone was starting to get sick of being under his rules. And that’s how the French revolution had begun. This story will be told as a commoner’s view of this whole revolution. King Louis XVI was a very fun-loving person. He threw parties here and there until one day he realized that there was a financial crisis in his own country‚ which meant that he didn’t have any money
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development of agriculture transformed human societies between 8‚000 B.C.E and 600 B.C.E. In the Paleolithic age ‚ the human population spread across the world in very small groups. These people were called hunters and gathers‚ they were nomadic because they constantly moved causing them produce fewer children. Once a new revolution was created it increased the human population‚ this new revolution was called the Neolithic Revolution. During this revolution agriculture and farming were discovered‚ it
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Writing Assignment Week 1 1. The Little Albert Study A. Presentist – The study of Little Albert had huge potential to teach us see all something about conditioning and fears. However‚ we now know that children do learn from their environment. The fact that the baby was not afraid of any of the subjects until the loud noise was added does not mean the child feared the object so much as the noise itself. Furthermore‚ to truly see if the fear was real‚ a study of the child in his natural setting
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until the French Revolution absolute monarchies dominated western Europe. In general‚ conservatism is associated with royalties and established religious organization including the Catholic Church‚ the Orthodox Church‚ and the Anglican Protestant Church in England. One of the lasting effects of the age of Napoleon is the spread of nationalism and liberalism. In the early 1800’s‚ liberals embraced enlightenment ideas spread by the French Revolution. Liberalism and Conservatism‚ after the French Revolution
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the French Revolution are vast and vary greatly in what they concern. What could be seen as the flame that ignited the French Revolution’s fire is France’s ever-growing population – when King Louis XVI took power in 1770 he commanded rule over twenty percent of Europe’s then non-Russian population‚ some thirty million people. This massive population combined with inefficient farming techniques served to create food shortages‚ particularly in the grain utilized to make bread‚ a staple in French diet
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2. How did the Industrial Revolution transform society? During the 1700’s‚ manufacturing companies in Britain began producing goods in a completely new way that would soon spread across Europe and then across the world. Inventors built remarkable machines. New forms of power‚ such as steam‚ replaced the strength of human and animals. The factory system of making goods also came into use. All of these advances affected patterns of living as well as working. Because society was so transformed‚ this
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The Enlightenment period was a time of great reasoning and new ideas. It was the time of many changes‚ and certain people in society didn’t necessarily like the change. It inspired a lot of the world as we know it today. Without certain knowledge like the Copernican theory we might not have made it to the moon‚ and without Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Lock the American justice system might not have been created. Scientists and those seeking that knowledge in the Enlightenment period were met
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