Unit 8: Rising Global Tensions

Unit 8: Rising Global Tensions

1. Enlightenment Philosophers

   • John Locke
     • Natural rights: Life, Liberty, Property.
       • Two Treatises on Government
   • Voltaire
     • Separation of Church and State
   • Rousseu
     • Governments should be what the people want
       • natural innocence corrupted by societal evils
         • The Social Contract
           • community above individual
             • little limit on citizens
   • Effects
     • Questioning of rulers possible
       • removed idea of divine right to rule
         • Influenced future governments
           • Set stage for revolutions

2. Absolutism

   • King Louis XIV
     • No power checks, boosted military, collected more taxes to build Palace of Versaille
   • Tsar Peter the Great
     • westernizations, boosted economy and military

3. Revolutions

   • English
   • American
   • Haitian
   • Latin American
   • French Revolution
     • Third Estate declares themselves a National Assembly Stormed Bastille, beginning Reign of Terror: Committee of Public Safety protected new government and removed traitors The Directory Napolean