For all you smart kids

yeah, JFK came about this close (hold fingers really close together) to starting the next WW3 and Russia was supplying nukes to the Confederacy when u lost the game

fucking kids don't know s hit about history these days
 
something about king louis and the guillotine and the reign of terror and enlightenment and things

thats about all i gathered from european history 101
 
Welp, the whole deal with Enlightenment salons. The belief that people had inalienable rights, were inherently good. Things of that nature. Enlightenment era thinkers like Voltaire, Rousseau and Montesquieu are important to research. They all borrowed from Locke's ideas. His two treatise of government also served as some of the basis for the rights of man and of the citizen, as well as the declaration of independence.
 
Then you could talk about that motherfucker Robespierre who got shot in the jaw with a musket ball. Crazy bastard wanted everyone to be virtuous and created a holiday for some God he made up.
 
historians actually split the revolution into two simultaneously occurring revolutions, the radical revolution and the liberal revolution. The radical revolution was run by people such as the ever present hordes of paris (sans culottes) (think heads on pikes, slicing up bodies of royalists to completely and symbolically destroy them, rioting, and a complete disdain for royals and the first and second estates) Jacobins, and eventually the committee of public safety.

When Jacobin powers in the assembly won the vote to execute the king, they rose in power over the Girondins through popular opinion and by simply removing many girondins from the assembly. This is when the radical revolution really got into full swing with Robespierre at the helm. this was the time where you could be guillotined for basically any sort of suspicion and the people of Paris especially were under a reign of terror.

Radicals thought that France needed to be purged of any sort of social hierarchy and be disconnected from the church completely. They mistrusted any executive power. Radicals in Paris believed they should be able to form an army and go out into the country and take food by force from the farmers. (one of the biggest problems in paris were food prices, and general lack of food) They believed that they, as the working class, were constantly being taken advantage of by richer people and called for ridiculously exorbitant and arbitrary taxes to be levied on these poeple.

Im taking this class right now so let me know if I can help more, but thats all i got off the op of my head
 
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