French Revolution

equality, rights, overthrowing monarchy = influenced by enlightenment

Start?

black death = ports merchants (central asia)

why did black death happen

popu increase, land area decrease = density increase

= congestion → poor

scarcity of sources

peasants revolt

wants high wages = weaken feudalism (hierarchical)

why did the french revolution (modern ages) happen?

peasants revolt

church before (medieval age) = most powerful

→removed papal absolutism (pope high supreme authority)

= loss of moral authority (in renaissance humanism grows)

Philip IV

• powerful king who challenged papal authority

• = weaken church power

Outrage of Anagni 1303

• pope stay at Arignon

• king Philip IV ordered mass arrest of knights of templar (Oct 13, 1307) = fri 13th

greath western schism 3 popes

• Europe = divided →diff countries support diff popes

= 3 popes claim authority (kept re-electing) = weaken church

Carpe Diem

= yolo = renaissance thinking → (mainly cuz of black death)

Italian free cities = florence paved way for

renaissance art = flourish of arts

renaissance patrons became wealthy = merchants

fall of Constantinople 1453

Constantinople = conquered by Ottoman Turks empire

= Byzantine (Greek) scholars fled to Florence

french revolution

= every noblem/ church/ missionary = didnt pay tax (but tax increase cuz of them)

• 50% income go to bread in 1787, 80% at 1788

law (determined by ppl) = highest power

= pave way for modern society

Napoleon code

conquered many parts of europe = spread equality + modern legal systems

= equality before law (no feudal privileges, freedom of rel, protection of property)

National assembly 1789-1791

created by 3rd estate (common ppl)

• shifted power to law = declaration of rights of man

• constitutional mmonarchy

  • career open to talent, rel toleraance, press freedom, system election, nationalized church pproperty

  • spirit of laissez-faire = believed gov doesn’t interfere in economy

freedom = liberalism → democracy + capitalism

= not controlled by class → paved way for conservatism (prince) = revolution 1848 = influenced by industrialization

Napoleon Bonaparte

“i am revolution” = self made emperor

= he lost (lol) = arrested