Revolution and Enlightenment

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• 1550-1800

1. The Scientific Revolution

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   • 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.
   1. reason
      1. 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.
         1. political events
            1. 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.
               1. Can you spot any similarities ?
                  2. similarities
                     1. -they both took place thanks to economic conditions
                     2. Their goals were to achieve independence and to gain human rights
                     3. Both were very bloody events, leaving many casualties
                     4. Product of the Enlightenment ideas
                     5. They wanted to get rid of the monarchy
                  3. Differences
                     1. The americans fought for freedom from the goverment meanwhile the french fought for freedom from class opression.
                     2. The french citizens was very blood thirsty and the americans werent that disrespectful to the brittish empire , unless they were on combat.
                     3. 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.
               2. Characters
                  1. Benjamin Franklin
                  2. Thomas Jefferson
                  3. Paul Revere
                  4. Jorge Washington
            2. French Revolution
               1. Marie Antonniette
               2. Luis xvi
               3. Napoleon
               4. Maximiliain Robespierre
         2. John Locke
         3. Diderot
         4. Voltaire
         5. Montesquieu
   2. chracters
      1. Coppernicus
      2. kepler
      3. Galileo Galilei
      4. Isaac Newton
2. 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.
3. How did these events and ideas changed and affect the world we live in now a days .
   1. 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.