There was no government that was representative of the people established until the Age of Revolution. ... Without the events of European exploration and expansion, the emergence of the global economy, and the Age of Revolution, the world would not be as modern as it is today. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

This ever increasing exploitation of the serfs reduced them by the end of the seventeenth century and had so impoverished serfs that they were forced to give up many of their former and civil rights. ... Feudalism was given a huge blow in Western Europe by the French Revolution and Napoleon. ... Moreover, Russia's defeat of the French Grand Army allowed serfdom to continue in Russia. ...

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• Grade Level: High School