Enlightenment- The Enlightenment produced numerous books, essays, inventions, scientific discoveries, laws , wars and revolutions. The American & French Revolutions were directly inspired by Enlightenment ideals and respectively marked the peak of its influence and the beginning of its decline. The Enlightenment ultimately gave way to to 19th-century.
Drought before revolution- France had severe weather patterns which included harsh cold and piles of snow which blocked commonly used roads used for trade and travel. In spite of this this stopped also wagons carrying wheat and food supplies. Food was already scarce in the 1780’2 and the harvest of two years prior to the revolution (1788-1789) was poor due to the weather. 1783, an volcano eruption occurred and spewed sulphuric dioxide into the hemisphere and caused crop failure all over Europe. When the snow finally melted it caused floods. 1789, a prolonged drought hit France, with blazing hot weather and extremely dry
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He became an role model towards the french people. In 1799 he staged a coup and became the first consul and in 1804 crowned himself emperor.He had battled and defeated powers creating the flexible and effective Grand Armee. 1812 he invaded Russia with a huge army but the russians would not fight a pitched battle on his terms and fell back into the country Napoleon followed and fell foul of the Russian winter. Grand Armee was broken beyond repair, it’s said the french could not raise one full trained regiment of cavalry at the start of 1813 and the french were defeated at Leipzig later that year. France was invaded and bonaparte exiled to Elba, he returned after less than a year but was defeated at Waterloo in June 1815. Once again he was exiled this time to St Helena where he died in