Question by Adam: how was the french revolution influenced by enlightenment ideas?
im writing a DBQ essay on the french revolution, things that lead to a political rev, and characteristics of a political rev. im trying to fit the enlightenment into the causes section. help please?
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Answer by Cabal
The idea that men were equal went again the grain of the whole feudal/class system. Once people started believing that they were not inferior and did not have to be at the bottom just because they were born of lower class people, things started to unravel.
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