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Unit 8: Rising Global Tensions

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Mind map: Unit 8: Rising Global Tensions

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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
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
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