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Enduring Understandings
Enduring Understandings
The Enlightenment influenced people’s view of authority.
The Enlightenment influenced people’s view of authority.
Many ideals and ideas of the Enlightenment endure into Modern World History.
Many ideals and ideas of the Enlightenment endure into Modern World History.
Revolutions can follow a predictable pattern throughout history.
Revolutions can follow a predictable pattern throughout history.
Essential Questions
Essential Questions
In what ways can new ideas change the way people view their society and themselves?
In what ways can new ideas change the way people view their society and themselves?
What societal conditions lead people to question authority?
What societal conditions lead people to question authority?
Do all revolutions follow a pattern?
Do all revolutions follow a pattern?
What was the legacy of the French Revolution and Napoleon?
What was the legacy of the French Revolution and Napoleon?
Terms and Names
Terms and Names
Philosophes (John Locke, Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean Jacques Rousseau, Mary Wollstonecraft
Three Estates
Financial Causes (Wars, debt, crop failures)
Louis XVI
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Robespierre / Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror
Directory
Napoleon
Napoleonic Code
Napoleon Domestic policies
Continental System
Role of Haiti
Napoleonic Wars (Waterloo)
The following lessons introduce the origins of challenging traditional authorities in Western Europe from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth centuries. The culminating results are revolutions around the world as European countries are overthrown and recreated after the spread of Enlightenment ideas give a new perspective to struggling populations.
The following lessons introduce the origins of challenging traditional authorities in Western Europe from the Fifteenth through the Eighteenth centuries. The culminating results are revolutions around the world as European countries are overthrown and recreated after the spread of Enlightenment ideas give a new perspective to struggling populations.
The Fifteenth Century was a world shifting toward the globalization we experience today. Spurred by new technology and ways of thinking, Western Europeans began to look beyond their immediate situation to seek new economic opportunities, leading to fantasies of distant lands. Amid reaching beyond the horizon, new ways of thinking challenged traditional sources of authority. This lesson explores the development of Enlightenment thought out of the Scientific Revolution.
The Fifteenth Century was a world shifting toward the globalization we experience today. Spurred by new technology and ways of thinking, Western Europeans began to look beyond their immediate situation to seek new economic opportunities, leading to fantasies of distant lands. Amid reaching beyond the horizon, new ways of thinking challenged traditional sources of authority. This lesson explores the development of Enlightenment thought out of the Scientific Revolution.
The scientists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries had a an impact on the philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. The philosophes used observation and reason to solve social, political, and economic issues. This lesson explores a handful of the philosophies and the impact they had on societies and eventually revolutions.
The scientists of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth centuries had a an impact on the philosophers of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth centuries. The philosophes used observation and reason to solve social, political, and economic issues. This lesson explores a handful of the philosophies and the impact they had on societies and eventually revolutions.
People will do unusual things when pushed to the edges of what they will accept. When they can't afford to eat and blame it on the government, the need for change and a greater political voice takes center stage among other conditions that lead the people of Eighteenth-Century France to challenge authority.
People will do unusual things when pushed to the edges of what they will accept. When they can't afford to eat and blame it on the government, the need for change and a greater political voice takes center stage among other conditions that lead the people of Eighteenth-Century France to challenge authority.
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