Revision: The enlightenment, scientific revolution, causes of the french revolution

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The Enlightenment and the French Revolution

Before the holiday

1. The Scientific Revolution
2. The Enlightenment: Liberty (Rousseau), Equality (Wollstonecraft), Rights (Locke), Separation of Powers (Montesquieu)
3. The causes of the French revolution: absolutism, the ancien regime, class society (1st, 2nd, 3rd estates), privilages

Experimentation

The Scientific Revolution

It is 1600 - you are really sick. What do you do?

1. Pray
2. Take antibiotics
3. Read a book to try and find out what is wrong
4. Give a doctor your piss

There is no real science

• The only 'science' is from Ancient Greece and Rome and is not very good
• Everybody 100% believes that God decides everthing 

It is 1600, there is a drought and there is a very bad harvest (oogst). What do you do

1. Pray
2. Find some witches and burn them
3. Get a priest to chase the devil away
4. Import new seeds that can survive droughts

Over 100,000 'witches' burnt in the 17th century

Everything is because of God (or the devil)

The Scientific Revolution

• From around 1600 a small group of people start to look differently at the world

What part of the scientific method can you see in the picture?

The Enlightenment

• Philosophers and other thinkers started to ask questions 
• Not only about the world but also about society, people and God

Give an example of inequality in France in the 18th century

The causes of the French Revolution

What is absolutism?

1. A political system where the people vote
2. A political system with a parliament
3. A political system where the king has all the power
4. A political system where the priests have all the power

Why does the king have all the power?

1. Elections
2. God gave him the power
3. The priests gave him the power
4. The nobles gave him the power

The Ancien Régime 

The political system in France before the revolution

It is made up of three estates, The States of the Realm

Which was NOT an estate in France before the revolution in 1789?

1. The Priests
2. The King
3. Everyone else
4. The Nobles

The Middle Class / bourgeoisie 

Richer (e.g slave trade), well educated, read enlightenment books

No power

Privileges