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Enlightenment Era The Enlightenment Era was a period in the 1600-1800s where educated Europeans changed the way they looked at life to see enlightenment which was progress. Another name for this era was Age of Reason. This era challenged not only the way you look at life but your beliefs. The philosophers in this time period wanted to use ideas not only for the scientific revolution but to find and solve the problems within government and society. Europeans changed the outlook on not only life,…

France at one point had a classification system called the Old Regime. It consisted of the First Estate, which had the clergy. The Second Estate included all of the nobles, and the Third Estate had all the middle class and poor. However the Third Estate was treated very poorly and were not equal to the other classes. The unjust treatment to the Third Estate was a major cause that led to the French Revolution. In the political cartoon, we see a poor man is chained while a king, priest, and a…

The unfair distribution of powers, rights, and wealth between the citizens of France was the main cause of the Revolution. Prior to the revolution, the Kingdom of France practiced the Ancient Regime, a political and social system “based on the concentration of all political, social and economic power between three classes, the monarchy, the clergy, and the aristocracy” (Bastille). Citizens of France were separated into three distinct estates. The First Estate consisted the French Catholic Clergy…

The French revolution by many, is regarded as the first modern revolution. This means that many that followed would attempt to implement some of the methods that the French used, or use modify them to make them work best for them. The people of France, like many countries in Europe at the time, were unhappy with the way that they were being ruled, but many were too worried about the consequences to do anything about it. The French lower and middle class were able to use the recalling of the…

In 1789, the French monarchy, the first and the second estate accumulate to 3% of the population. They enjoy their power and privileges given by the Old Regime. In France, the other 97% of the population belongs to the third estate and most of them are extremely ragged. Crop failures from bad weather has the cost of bread to double leaving many to starve. In addition, they are burdened by taxes which accumulates to 50% of their income. Enlightenment ideas spread across France where many people…

The 18th century Enlightenment was constant battle between freedom and order in every aspect that makes up a country. This is because an enlightenment is the balancing of liberty and order in all aspects that make up a country. Although traditionally thought of as a simple philosophical movement, the European enlightenment specifically contains much more than first brought to the eye. Politically between an absolute government and a democracy, morally for the sake of science, socially with the…

The French Revolution commenced in 1789. A good majority of historians can come to an understanding that the French Revolution was an affair that altered Europe forever, very similar to the American Revolution, and that happen just ten years prior. The reasons for the French Revolution are not easy to specifically state an exact cause. Overseas, quite a few major wars had occurred in the 30 plus years preceding the French Revolution, also France was involved somewhat, in most of them. The…

The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries saw a radical intellectual evolution in Europe, commonly referred to as the Age of Enlightenment. Freed from the previous supposition that humanity was subject to the unknowable will of God, and emboldened by recent scientific advances that made the mysteries of the natural world suddenly knowable, the Enlightenment Thinkers believed in the power of investing intellectual capital to improve the human condition. One of the most influential of the…

In this essay I will be going over two major causes and effects of the Latin American and French Revolution. One major cause of the French revolution was was the rebellion of the 3rd estate. France was made up of three estates. The Clergy belonged to the First Estate. The Clergy was sub­divided into two groups i.e. the higher clergy and the lower clergy. They did not pay any tax to the monarch. The Nobility was regarded as the Second Estate in the French Society. They also did not pay any tax…

Love and Hate, a clashing force with a common purpose: to unify people and bring about change, but which is more powerful? In A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens, the theme of love and hate can be found throughout the novel. Lucie’s “Golden Thread” tied all the men in her life together, transforming them into a better person. She is a virtuous woman who represents unconditional love and inspires loyalty and compassion in others. On the other hand, Madame Defarge’s abhorrence towards the…