This was an intellectual movement that changed the way philosophers and scientists thought they started disagreeing with the previous thinkers like aristoteles.They encouraged new ways of thinking, they proved that the laws of nature could be discovered by careful observation and reason.
reason
The enlightenment
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impressed by the discoveries and advances of the scientific revolution, philosophers tried and achieved to discover the nature of man and its behavior inside society.
political events
American Revolution
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To cover war coasts brittish leaders created new revenues that american people should pay, also the implimentatation of the stamp act ; this caused crisis and turmoir among society.
Can you spot any similarities ?
similarities
-they both took place thanks to economic
conditions
Their goals were to achieve independence and to gain human rights
Both were very bloody events, leaving many casualties
Product of the Enlightenment ideas
They wanted to get rid of the monarchy
Differences
The americans fought for freedom from the goverment meanwhile the french fought for freedom from class opression.
The french citizens was very blood thirsty and the americans werent that disrespectful to the brittish empire , unless they were on combat.
In the French Revolution the people that fought for change were those opressed by goverment, and the American Revolution was fought by those of any social class.
Characters
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Paul Revere
Jorge Washington
French Revolution
Marie Antonniette
Luis xvi
Napoleon
Maximiliain Robespierre
John Locke
Diderot
Voltaire
Montesquieu
chracters
Coppernicus
kepler
Galileo Galilei
Isaac Newton
References
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Spielvogel, J., & McTighe, J. (2013). World history & geography. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
Differences Between the French and American Revolution. (2013, February 14). Retrieved August 28, 2015.
How did these events and ideas changed and affect the world we live in now a days .
Their legacy has given us a world ruled by justice and equality, a
govermental system in which people are able to vote and chose the way they
want to be goberned. A world influenced by science and logical thinking.