... Two countries that I am going to talk about are the countries of France, and Great Britain. Both are European states, but political, economically, and socially, they could not be any more different. Let's take a look at the similarities and differences of these two Atlantic seaboard states. In ... the political sector of Europe, you had various forms of government. France had an absolutism government, where as England had a form of "enlightened absolutism." England ... doing was establishing a path to a modern nationhood. France basically had the same form and ideas, except that it was...

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... government or ruler by the governed and then substituting another. For instance, a revolution took place in both France and England within the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Enlightenment and the political leaders led France to financial problems, causing the French Revolution. The people wanted change and brought on the revolt against their government. As a result, France's whole government perspective changed. ... ." (Scholastic World History Program: The Age of Europe, pg. 233) The Puritan Revolution of 1642 and the French Revolution of 1789 had many similarities. Both rul...

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