... of the Enlightenment period were called. The ideas that they introduced into a society hungry for change were probably the most important, albeit indirect, cause of the Revolution. The climate for the Revolution had been present for quite some time before it actually broke out. The root of the problem was the absolute monarchy as way of government, and the unreasonable ... philosophers and social commentators, from countries such as England and America, these four made the biggest impact on the French people, and played the largest role in driving them to a revolution. Voltaire, a philo...

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... ideas further. Furthermore, when Napoleon was in control of France and took over other lands, his soldiers spread much revolutionary ideology over these territories. One reason the American Revolution came about was because many Americans were unhappy with the popular mercantilist theory. This meant that the colonies would supply the raw materials for their mother country, who would ... equal, and independent, no one can be.. subjected to the political power of another without his own consent." (Locke, 31) His words proved importance as a justification for the American revolution. "Whe...

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... ferment. One, was a revulsion against monarchical and clerical absolutism and new freedom of publishing. Also, was the rise of a new public and secular culture. And not least, the impact of Scientific Revolution, particularly the excitement generated by Newton's Principia (1687). Newton's work seemed to prove that order and mathematically demonstrable laws were at work in the physical universe. Perhaps a similar order and ... ...

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