Unit 1 Review

Enlightenment Thinkers

• Impact of the printing press on learning through observation and discussion
• Changing source of worldview -- from the Church or from laws of nature (science)?
• Old Idea (kings and church) vs. New Idea (democracy and science)

French Revolution

• Weather impacts agricultural economies, feudal system (acien regime) does not support the stress on the Third Estate
• Patterns of revolution -- discontent, new government, terror, military rule, return to something new yet resembles the original government.

Haitian Revolution

• Social structure facilitates revolt
• French Revolution makes it difficult to govern and inspires revolutionary ideas among the gens de couleur
• Compare stages of revolution to French Revolution (don't be too concerned about the order of events)