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Enlightenment and Revolutionary Ideas

Enlightenment and Revolutionary Ideas. Warm Up: November 14/15. In your journal, write about one paragraph for each of the following questions: Do you think humans are basically good or bad? Why do you think this? Explain.

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Enlightenment and Revolutionary Ideas

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  1. Enlightenment and Revolutionary Ideas

  2. Warm Up: November 14/15 • In your journal, write about one paragraph for each of the following questions: • Do you think humans are basically good or bad? Why do you think this? Explain. • What do you think of authority? Is authority something to be trusted and respected or something to suspect and question? Why? • Under what circumstances would you consider taking part in a political revolution in the United States? What would have to happen to lead to that?

  3. Today’s Objectives • Formally define revolution. • Understand factors that led to revolution in France. • DON’T LET ME FORGET TO PASS BACK PROJECT RUBRICS!!

  4. Revolution - Our Definition • A fundamental change • (fundamental = basic; affecting the very nature) • in either one or more of the following: • The type of political organization or leadership • The socioeconomic system (the social structure and accompanying system of economic distribution) • The way of thinking about or visualizing something • The methods or process of satisfying basic needs

  5. Factors contributing to French Revolution • Effects of the Crusades • Rise of Absolute Monarchy • Enlightenment Ideas

  6. Impact of the Crusades on Europe • Institutionalization of religious hatred, Atrocities and Anti-semitism • Split: Rome and Byzantine churches • Increased trade • Sugar, Cotton, Rice, Muslin • Increase of papal power, and feudal conflict • Taxes; charters • Money economy • Wider world view • *Rediscovery of Classic art, literature, and philosophy • Helped lead to renaissance and enlightenment • *Increased Power of Kings

  7. Absolutism • Read pages594-595 and answer the following: • What is absolutism? • Why did absolutism emerge?

  8. What is different with absolute monarchy? More power for the king/monarch Less power for lower classes

  9. Enlightenment • Enlightenment: A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems. Also known as the Age of Reason. • What did this mean to different thinkers? Fill out the chart using pages 629-632 of your text.

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