help please, on a school project 'the role french revolution in the world'?

Answer 1

The French Revolution had a very substantial role in the forming of modern Europe. Primarily, because the revolutionaries murdered King Louis XVI and destroyed the divine right of kings, it unified all of the various monarchies across Europe against any sort of reform coming from below. This unification led to a series of massive wars against France, which led to many of the basics we recognize in modern warfare (the levee en masse was the drafting of the entire population of France into supporting the war, the gearing of the entire economy to supply war materials, etc). Eventually, in the midst of the chaos, Napoleon would seize power and march across all of Europe, crushing ancient dynasties and circumventing existing traditions and laws through his military and political restructuring.

The French Revolution in and of itself would quickly burn itself out but it set the stage for what we consider today to be Liberal Democracy and Military Professionalism.

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Answer 2

Try to narrow the question. What role did the French revolution play in Modern Politics? (i.e. gave most of europe valid reasons for sticking constitutional monarchies and parlimentary forms of democracy, rather than a more American style of participatory government. It also had a profound impact on the principalities that made up the German and Italian states, being one of the factors that set the stage for German and Italian Unification)

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What role did the French revolution play in science and technology? Since the revolution reject the church and embraced rationalism, there were enormous strides taken in science and technology, not the least of which was the creation of a rational system of weights and measures (the metric system) which most of the rest of the world had the good sense to adopt.

What role did the french revolution play in Arts and Culture. Here, there was great impact in making arts accessible to everyone and turning what were formally folk arts into High Culture. Art was no longer the property of the Aristocrats, art has something to offer everyone, and radical notion whose promised is still unfullfilled.

The point is any research project is easier the more focused and narrow you are? Huge subjects, like the French Revolution, need to be broken down into more managable bits.

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Answer 3

The French Revolution (1789-1799) was a pivotal period in the history of French, European and Western civilization. During this time, republicanism replaced the absolute monarchy in France, and the country's Roman Catholic Church was forced to undergo a radical restructuring. While France would oscillate among republic, empire, and monarchy for 75 years after the First Republic fell to a coup d'état, the Revolution is widely seen as a major turning point in the history of Western democracy—from the age of absolutism and aristocracy, to the age of the citizenry as the dominant political force.

Many interrelated political and socioeconomic factors contributed to the French Revolution. To some extent, the old order succumbed to its own rigidity in the face of a changing world. It fell to the ambitions of a rising bourgeoisie, allied with aggrieved peasants, wage-earners, and individuals of all classes who had come under the influence of the ideas of the Enlightenment. As the revolution proceeded, and as power devolved from the monarchy to legislative bodies, the conflicting interests of these two once-allied groups would become the source of conflict and bloodshed.

Causes of the French Revolution include the following

A poor economic situation and an unmanageable national debt were both caused and exacerbated by the burden of a grossly inequitable system of taxation and France's funding of the American Revolution;
A resentment of royal absolutism;
An aspiration for liberty and republicanism;
A resentment of Manorialism (seigneurialism) by peasants, wage-earners, and, to a lesser extent, the bourgeoisie;
The rise of enlightenment ideals;
Food scarcity in the months immediately before the revolution;
High unemployment and high bread prices resulting in the inability to purchase food;
A resentment of noble privilege and dominance in public life by the ambitious professional classes;
A resentment of religious intolerance;
The failure of Louis XVI to deal effectively with these phenomena.

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Answer 4

The role of the French revolution in the world is the expulsion of the French Monarchy. It gave rise of democracy that spread throughout Europe. (Although France is now a socialist country, but it is still have many freedom and rights than any other socialist countries). It also gave Napoleon to power later on, whom conquer many other countries as in a modern capitalistic and colonizationist of the 18th and 19th century. It ended Feudalism or the end of landlord controlling of piece of land to harvest crops. And finally it spread the Catholic religion to Ireland. I believe there was a time when Catholic was fighting the Lutheran or Protestant in France. Please check your history book because non of this is a 100%. I really love Western European History but that was in college and college was a long time ago....lol.

Answer 5

I don't remember hardly anything about the French revolution, other than it is quite possibly the most boring subject in history, closely followed by the industrial revolution. This coming from a former history major.