The French Revolution is the quintessence of a revolution's cyclical nature. The Revolution began with the injustice of ignorant rulers and ended with the maniacal tyranny of a paranoid revolutionary. ... He missed and ended up only wounding his jaw. ... The French Revolution began and ended in bloodshed and hatred. ... The French revolution is a clear example of the repercussions of a revolution based out of fear and hatred....

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Railroads and Steamships The second Industrial Revolution was also a transportation revolution. ... Toward the end of the second Industrial Revolution, corporations and stocks developed to cope with the increasing size of industry.Corporations and StocksNew industries, such as railroads, were expensive to build and maintain. ... France France industrialized more slowly. ... France did, however, increase production of coal and iron between 1820 and 1870, and mechanize textile production. ... Separate Spheres Since the end of the domestic system, the workplace had been separated from home. ...

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The Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution It has, been variously called the "Western Miracle" (Rosenberg and Birdzell 42) and the "European Miracle," (Jones) but it is commonly known as the Industrial Revolution. ... This research examines why the Industrial Revolution took place in Europe, and why it did not occur elsewhere, specifically Asia. ... It is estimated that at the start of the fourteenth century, the combined peoples of France, Germany and Britain supported 15 percent of the population through peasant work (meaning that 85 percent of the population were peasants)....

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Napoleon is single-handedly the reason that the French Revolution took the course that it did. ... (http://library.thinkquest.org/17120/data/bios/users/napoleon2/page_1.html) His training in military school and experience in wars during the French Revolution gave him the potential to shape him to become a strong, powerful leader, which is just what he was. ... Before him, France was under the Reign of Terror where revolutionaries executed people left and right and there was no end to the chaos. ... Had the classes been at war, like how things once were, then the French Revolution would have en...

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Through history civilizations have rose and fell, carved out of nature, dependent on nature, in the end nature took them back. ... A third and more breathtaking revolution occurred in the economic side was steam-powered equipment's that were perfected and applied to one producing process after another. Equally the fresh tools created a new form of production firm in economic revolution known as the factory. These revolutions had been an extraordinary surge in the growth of population, mainly in enhancements in the food supply. ... Provincial capacities are being spread above bigger and bi...

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The brink of the French Revolution saw the fall of Louis XVI, and with his kingship lost, the path was clear for the rise of a powerful and influential military commander; Napoleon Bonaparte. ... The end of his reign was preceded by a series of battles, failed policies and insightful thinking, that would conclusively leave Europe transformed. ... The brink of the French Revolution saw the fall of Louis XVI. ... Napoleon Bonaparte rose as the emperor of France in the latter stages of the French Revolution. ... The end of his reign was preceded by a series of battles, failed policies and insigh...

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The conflicting religious ideologies of the 16th century nearly destroyed France and sparked murderous conflict in the Netherlands and Germany. ... The massacres of Catholic Henry III of France 1589, Protestant William the Silent of the Dutch Republic 1584, and Protestant turned Catholic Henry IV of France 1610 after 19 failed attempts, as well as countless massacres and wars provoked by religious differences, impelled a new approach to governing. ... God thing to, considering the growing threat in France. ... The end of compulsory military service enabled Catherine II (1762-1796) to enact ...

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The defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588) and the loss of the United Provinces of the Netherlands (completed by 1648) mark the end of Spain's greatness. ... The State System in this arena was affected by Industrial Revolution, representative governments, political changes, growth of international law, emergence of international organization, economic interdependence, revolution in the means of transport and communication. ... The war ended with the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1763. ... Year 1776 saw the American Declaration of Independence and in 1789 the Estates General meets in Paris be...

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The balance of power of European states changed from 1848 to 1914 because of revolutions and certain unifications. ... Also certain the Crimean War, which caused the end of conservatism and alliances with European nations. ... Bismarck was eventually pressed by France as he knew that a patriotic war with France would drive the southern states into German owned land. But France declared war on Prussia to teach Germany a lesson. ... France took parts of West and Central Africa. ...

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As Erica Benner (2013) mentions in Nationalism: Intellectual Origins, a German reaction to the revolutions in America and France, which "claimed to found new national forms of legitimacy on universal, republican principles" (Benner 2013, p. 45), which was when the confederation of German states in 1800, or the Holy Roman Empire, were collapsing due to the pressure of the revolutionary wars. ... Fichte did support the French revolution initially, by even promoting the belief of using force to intervene in other countries and expand an ideology, and it illustrates the significant ideas of the ra...

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The restored large central rose window (circular stained-glass window) became standard in French-Gothic architecture. ... Proclaiming the majesty and power of Christ, these sculptures was destroyed from the western fazade during the French Revolution. During the reign of Napoleon III, the French Gothic structures were threatened with extermination by Imperial order. ... Rising above the town, has interior height of one-hundred twenty-one feet, and six inches, two towers at the west end, and a spire over the south tower, completed in 1160 is on of the earliest true spires in Europe. ... Goth...

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New concepts governed the grammar and syntax of music, new genres came into being, and commercial practices increasingly determined a composer's reputation and by the end of the century, the public's view of the composer had changed substantially. ... These symphonies are standardized into two styles: The three movements of symphonies written in the French style feature tempos played slow-quick-slow. ... The period that followed the failure of the European Revolutions of 1848 - 1849 and the downfall of Hegelianism was generally characterized by Positivism and Realism. ... Duri...

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The European Union was originally established in 1950 to bring the six European nations of Germany, France, Belgium, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands closer together. ... The industrialisation of both China and Japan owe its revolution to America and Europe, therefore you can find European institutions within South-East Asia, which makes trading not such a foreign experience, or in other words, even our newly found friends have been influenced by Europe in some time in their history. ... It wasn't really until the end of the second world war, when Australia's independence with...

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