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    He was loved by all the French people because they believed he brought back France from the pit of despair. So he was known as the leader of France. However, many people believed that he was a tyrant since he was crowned emperor of France. Although many people believe that Napoleon Bonaparte was a tyrant, he was an enlightened ruler since he granted everyone equality under the law. Napoleon united the people of France after the French Revolution and gave them equal rights under the law. Napoleon…

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    The constitution of 1917 marked the Mexican Revolution, to realize their ideals still place takes place today. The first message and constitution was signed in 1814, to legally gain independence from Spain. Another constitution was made in 1824, but the people who wrote it were focused on how the government was functioning. After some time has passed they made changes to the constitution, which included a judicial system and it lasted until the revolution started. The revolution was supposed to…

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    the idea of enlightenment was spread throughout the world. Such as in America, America went through their revolution in 1765 to 1783. They fought and won independence from Great Britain, like the Haitians did from France. The American revolution inspired revolutions in Haiti and in France. The Haitian revolution was led by Toussaint Louverture and the French Revolution was led by Maximilien Robespierre. Even Though the Haitian revolution was much more complex because it was several revolutions…

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    unrestricted power within the government led to countries meeting social, political, and economical downfall. Louis XIV of France has been regarded traditionally as the best example of the practice of absolute monarchy in the seventeenth century. He had faults which included his desire for glory, increased royal power, and military power and this resulted in war. Louis XIV left France impoverished and surrounded by enemies, along with causing major losses of life and capital spent from the wars…

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    injustices. There were many different causes of the French Revolution, some of which were feudalism and the class system, the monarchy, and the economy. To began with, feudalism and the class system helped cause the French Revolution. The people of France were divided into three different classes, which were the clergy, nobility, and then everyone else. They had a lot of of privileged society. First, the Clergy were the high members of the church pope, priest bishops, archbishops,and…

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    make enemies around the world, he also made enemies within his own country. His code of conduct declared women subpar to men, and the years of hard work to achieve equality for woman were tossed out the window. Napoleon was not a friend but a foe to France, as he squandered resources and lives for war, crumbling the French empire from within and limiting the power of his citizens.…

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    On the other hand, Napoleon was impatient. Many negotiation attempts were foiled by Napoleon’s refusal to compromise or agree. Britain declared war on France on 18 May 1803. While awaiting for the French navy to make the first move, the British remained in a defensive strategy for nearly two years. However, Spain joined the war as an ally to France in 1804. Spain granted Napoleon the resources and ships he needed to challenge Britain. Napoleon began to seek opportunities to strike Britain…

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    known as “Dun Huang Dance”, was inspired by the art inside of those famous caves. The origin of Ballet dance can be traced to the 15th century Italian Renaissance courts, and later developed into a concert dance style in France, Russia, Britain, and Italy. Ballet was brought to France by Catherine de Medici, who was an Italian noble woman, a patron of the arts, and the wife of King Henry II, but it was later popularized and standardized…

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    years after 1794, when the collapse of economic regulation coincided with harvest failure, exposed the poor to starvation against which the charity of parish clergy with fewer resources could never be adequate protection. According to many, in the New France, most nobles retained the bulk of their property and remained wealthy and powerful. On the whole, there was a lot of bloodshed, huge sacrifices, movements, dashed hopes and shattered dreams after the revolution. However, despite these…

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    The French revolution was a huge part of world history. Many people have tried to find the motive behind the revolution. “The French Revolution was, in it’s time, the most frightening inspiring, threatening, exhilarating, volcanic, horric, uplighting, unimaginable, portentous, appalling, implausible, imponderable event in the remembered history of the world” (Newlin 13). There are a lot of things that could have started the French revolution. Human’s natural attraction to blood and lust was a…

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