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The Enlightenment and the French Revolution

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Before the holiday
  1. The Scientific Revolution
  2. The Enlightenment: Liberty (Rousseau), Equality (Wollstonecraft), Rights (Locke), Separation of Powers (Montesquieu)
  3. The causes of the French revolution: absolutism, the ancien regime, class society (1st, 2nd, 3rd estates), privilages

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Experimentation
The Scientific Revolution

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It is 1600 - you are really sick. What do you do?
A
Pray
B
Take antibiotics
C
Read a book to try and find out what is wrong
D
Give a doctor your piss

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There is no real science
  • The only 'science' is from Ancient Greece and Rome and is not very good
  • Everybody 100% believes that God decides everthing 

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It is 1600, there is a drought and there is a very bad harvest (oogst). What do you do
A
Pray
B
Find some witches and burn them
C
Get a priest to chase the devil away
D
Import new seeds that can survive droughts

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Over 100,000 'witches' burnt in the 17th century
Everything is because of God (or the devil)

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The Scientific Revolution
  • From around 1600 a small group of people start to look differently at the world


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What part of the scientific method can you see in the picture?

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The Enlightenment
  • Philosophers and other thinkers started to ask questions 
  • Not only about the world but also about society, people and God

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Give an example of inequality in France in the 18th century

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The causes of the French Revolution

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What is absolutism?
A
A political system where the people vote
B
A political system with a parliament
C
A political system where the king has all the power
D
A political system where the priests have all the power

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Why does the king have all the power?
A
Elections
B
God gave him the power
C
The priests gave him the power
D
The nobles gave him the power

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The Ancien Régime 
The political system in France before the revolution
It is made up of three estates, The States of the Realm

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Which was NOT an estate in France before the revolution in 1789?
A
The Priests
B
The King
C
Everyone else
D
The Nobles

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The Middle Class / bourgeoisie 

Richer (e.g slave trade), well educated, read enlightenment books

No power

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Privileges

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