WORLD HISTORY

FRENCH REVOLUTION

FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which of the following is an Enlightenment ideal that helped fuel the French Revolution?
A
The nobility has a right to own all the land.
B
There should be a full-scale revolution.
C
A king should have absolute power over thecountry.
D
Allmen are free and created equal.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The ideals of liberty and equality, that were needed to overthrow Louis XVI, emerged first from the writings of important and influential thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment. Specifically, the writings of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu greatly influenced the revolutionaries in France.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Enlightenment included a range of ideas centered on the value of human happiness, the pursuit of knowledge obtained by means of reason and the evidence of the senses, and ideals such as natural law, liberty, progress, toleration, fraternity, constitutional government, and separation of church and state.

Detailed explanation-3: -So what was it? The Enlightenment, sometimes called the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, was a late 17th-and 18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individualism, and skepticism.

Detailed explanation-4: -Enlightenment thinkers in Britain, in France and throughout Europe questioned traditional authority and embraced the notion that humanity could be improved through rational change. The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws, wars and revolutions.

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