American Revolution

7 08, 2017

European Warfare – Military history

By |2018-04-20T08:25:05-07:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, War|Comments Off on European Warfare – Military history

British cannon from the Hundred Years' War (now at Mont St. Michel) Not long before 1500 AD, everything medieval soldiers did in wars suddenly changed. First, Europeans learned how to make and use gunpowder from Central [...]

7 08, 2017

Jean-Jacques Rousseau – European philosophy

By |2018-04-08T11:14:29-07:00August 7th, 2017|Modern Europe, Philosophy|Comments Off on Jean-Jacques Rousseau – European philosophy

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, a European philosopher Rousseau was born in 1712 AD into a Protestant family living in Geneva, and his mother died of an infection she caught while he was being born. Like the [...]

5 08, 2017

French Revolution – History of France

By |2019-06-16T06:57:05-07:00August 5th, 2017|Modern Europe|Comments Off on French Revolution – History of France

French Revolution: French women revolutionaries march on the king's palace at Versailles Why did France want a revolution? All through the 1700s, Enlightenment philosophers in France had been figuring out new ways [...]

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