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    The enlightenment consisted of key concepts shared by the most influential philosophers of its time, while also being found in major works that carry on through centuries to come. These conceptions consisted of reason, nature, happiness, progress, liberty, and toleration that make up the four broader categories of the eighteenth century. The major concepts of the Enlightenment were individualism, relativism, empiricism, and rationalism. First, the defining of “ism” gives great insight into the…

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    Women, like other groups such as the lower class, middle class and the different races had a large and significant effect in the occurrences of French Revolution. Women’s presence in multiple small revolutions before and after the year 1789 and long after the revolution had taken place are considered major aspects of the participation of the French Revolution. However, the ‘March to Versailles’ and the signing of ‘The Declaration of the Rights of the Man’ is thought of as the most significant…

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    Prior to understanding the present economic situation in Haiti, it is essential to understand Haiti’s colonial history. Under French rule in the 1700’s, Haiti was one of the most profitable colonies in the western hemisphere and represented a large amount of France’s economy. Farmer (2004), mentions “the current crisis in Haiti, is impacted from the overall history in the 18th century, it became France’s most valuable colonial possession, and one of the most brutally efficient slave colonies.”…

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    French Revolution HW Define Estates (n.): Social classes of people of composed either the clergy, nobility, or commoners. Old Regime (n.): Social structure made up of the three estates originating in the middle ages. Republic (n.): Form of government that allows the people to elect officials to represent them in government. 1. Payer states that life in France during the 18th century was relatively easy and thriving at the time. Foreigners marveled at French infrastructure, the economy was…

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    don’t have to pay tax so they are becoming extremely wealthy. They should be the ones paying the most taxes because they are the wealthiest; instead of making the poorest people of all of France pay them. They took an oath not to disband until a new French constitution has been adopted.…

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    The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution Revolutions can be defined as forcible a overthrow of a government or social order in favour of a new system. The Industrial Revolution started in the 1780’s while the French Revolution started in 1789. Both revolutions are similar in the way that people started to question the church and the government, but differ in the terms of that the French Revolution was a civil war. One similarity is that during the French Revolution and the…

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    France, in the 1700s, was a very powerful country compared to all the other countries in Europe. With the new king, Louis XVI, France was falling in power because Louis XVI was not a smart King, and did was not able to make decisions on his own. In France, there was an uprising from the Estates, or groups of people, that want to fix the problem of low amounts of money. There are three main groups of people and one person by himself, that make up the groups of people. The lower class is…

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    Reign Of Terror Dbq

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    A time during the French Revolution, there came the Reign of terror, a one year period that saw countless scores of innocent citizens being guillotined. What exactly made a country that was running successful war crusades abroad degenerate into social terror, mass incarceration, and blatant executions unprecedented before? The economy was destitute, and the taxes were inflated. The poor do not have much liking for the rich, and in the French case, where the nobility was oppressive, an…

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    Beginning in 1789 and ending in the late 1790s, the French revolution was an uprooting of centuries old institutions such as absolute monarchy and the feudal system. Although the French revolution can be attributed to a myriad of causes, they weigh heavily on the failure of Louis XVI to effectively manage France’s finances and institute necessary reforms. This failure, in turn attributed heavily towards many wars, famine and depression in France. As a result, the people of France inevitably…

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    Invented in the late 1700s, the guillotine was a gruesome, yet humane method of execution. As you can imagine, designing a guillotine, which would work effectively on all ages, heights, and weights was difficult at first. Originally, beheadings were done with an axe. Some early forms of guillotines were created using an axe. However, those designs never caught on. Finally, a perfected guillotine was created, and took its place “ahead” of the competition. Measuring in at about 4 meters tall…

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