The movement helped create the intellectual framework for the American and French Revolutions, Poland's Constitution of May 3, 1791, the Latin American independence movement, the Greek national independence movement and the later Balkan independence movements against the Ottoman Empire, and led to the ...
Absolutism often stifled freedom of expression and thought, supporting the idea that individuals should submit to the absolute authority of the ruler. On the other hand, Enlightenment thinkers encouraged individual thought, freedom, and rational inquiry, promoting ideas that often clashed with the ...
TheFrench Revolutionof 1789 was the culmination of the High Enlightenment vision of throwing out the old authorities to remake society along rational lines, but it devolved into bloody terror that showed the limits of its own ideas and led, a decade later, to the rise ofNapoleon. Still, its...
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TWOSEPARATEREVOLUTIONS •AmericanrevolutionInthesecondhalfoftheeighteenthcentury,twoseparate revolutionstoppledregimesonbothsidesoftheAtlantic.Inthefirstofthetwogreat upheavals,theAmericanRevolution,whichlastedfrom1775to1783,the13British colonieslocatedalongtheAtlanticseaboardsecuredtheirindependencefromGreat Britain....
The ideas of the Enlightenment undermined the authority of the monarchy and the church, and paved the way for the political revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries. French historians traditionally place the Enlightenment between 1715, the year that Louis XIV died, and 1789, the beginning of ...
(征用) peasants, wrote the "simple annals of the poor”.Writers of sentimentalism justly criticized the cruelty of the capitalist relations and the gross social injustices brought about by the bourgeois revolutions.But they attacked the progressive aspect of this great social change in order to ...
philosophy. They were the pioneering ideological campaigns that were known as the emergence of unprecedented cultural expressions and generalized humanitarian notions, which led to further more visibly influential revolutions. Less than one century after this ideological pivotal, Europeans started to be ...
How did the Declaration of Independence embody Enlightenment ideas? Magna Carta In 1215, King John of England was faced with a rebellion which led to the signing of theMagna Carta,a document which provided and ensured certain rights among the upper classes of England at the time. Throughou...