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    ten years. The book, A Tale of Two Cities, by Charles Dickens, illustrates what happened during the revolution. The rebellion was a horrible and a convoluted revolt against aristocrats by the peasants for many years. They were revolting because the peasants were badly oppressed by the aristocrats. Dickens shows the readers how the peasants get their revenge by using the symbols: knitting, the storm, and wine. The first symbol of revenge is knitting because it records a list of people that are going

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    the people to revolt but, the Estate System was a major economic, social, and political cause of the French Revolution. The Estate System was a major social cause of the French Revolution. During the 18th century France, society was divided into three unequal estates: the clergy, nobility, and peasants.

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    operations to colonize and settle new lands in the future. The Black Plague emboldened the British peasantry as they gained substantial power over the functionings of British society going forward into the subsequent peasant revolts. The aristocracy was at the will of the peasants for the peasants could destroy the aristocracy's elevated position in society because

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    human rights was questioned leading to a peasants revolt. B. 3.The

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    With the new printing press “people were working to make books so that they could now have and read books and gain knowledge” after gaining knowledge the peasants were more self reliant in the social aspect (Document 3). On the religious aspect of the education monks were offended because they believed, “the power of judging the scripture is in the church,” and people started reading and judging what the

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    Nicholas II had ruled in an autocratic method due to the fear of appearing a weak leader. He was also not ready to make any drastic changes to the organisation and structure of the empire. The Tsar did not take any advice from either his political relations or the people of Russia. He thought he was ‘chosen by God’ to fill the role as the nation’s leader. Nicholas was not suitable for his role as Tsar, and would’ve rather spent his time with his family. Subsequently, he was disconnected with his

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    For 33 years according to its one political leader Mexico experienced different amounts of success but this success didn’t included “all” Mexicans which its majority were lower class citizens, on this equation the majority of people were never the ones to gain; wealth and land inequalities and abuse of power will part of the daily struggle, as result of this Mexican revolution will began. In 1908, after a publication of an interview of Porfirio Diaz by James Creelman, sentiments of Revolution began

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    and they are accompanied and in part carried through by class-based revolts from below.” In consequence, the following thesis is one such answer to this long-held debate using this definition as a base reference. The social unrest created by remnants still remaining from the feudal system, compounded with economic pressures caused by a political system unable to properly respond to crisis, resulted in a fervent spirit of revolt that pervaded through the whole of the third state only to turn to more

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    absolute monarch. The monarch took advantage of this by taxing the peasants and allowing the nobles and clergy to be tax free. As enlightenment ideas started to spread, the peasant so had enough. The began to print documents and pamphlets that, not only represent enlightenment thinking, showed that the people wanted everyone to have the same rights and liberties. They were tired of the nobles having certain liberties that the peasants did not. “The nobility’s representation still remains essentially

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    people security and peace from the official Haiti. Everyone else in the outside world was surprised of Haiti defeating France. Many people were worried that their slaves would notice the success with the Haitian revolutionaries and that they would revolt in other places

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