WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Enlightenment era ushered in a series of sweeping changes in both Europe and the English Colonies in America. Both the American and French Revolutions were greatly influenced by ideas that came from the Enlightenment period.

Detailed explanation-2: -The American Revolution’s financial support for the American Revolution resulted in political instability and massive debt at the start of the French Revolution. The sense of liberty and personal rights which the American colonists struggled for inspired the French to fight and establish numerous events.

Detailed explanation-3: -Many scholars have agreed that Enlightenment thinking was present in the political and social elite of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies in the Americas, especially after the French Revolution.

Detailed explanation-4: -The philosophes (French for ‘philosophers’) were writers, intellectuals and scientists who shaped the French Enlightenment during the 18th century. The best known philosophes were Baron de Montesquieu, Voltaire, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Denis Diderot.