For your review for the Unit Test on Period 5, you will need to select 10 thematic issues from the review list I provided. For each of your issues, I would like you to write a 2 sentence contextualization and then include specific illustrative examples.
SAMPLE:
1. Enlightenment ideas and revolution in the Atlantic World
The Enlightenment in Europe (18th century) grew out of the Scientific Revolution and applied the principles of the scientific method, as well as the concepts of rationality and progress, to the study of human society. Enlightenment ideals of progress and perfectibility - the notion that society and government cold be improved by rational human efforts - led to the idea of natural rights such as liberty, equality before the law, free trade, religious toleration, and republicanism (citizenship in a state based on popular sovereignty vs. monarchy). Enlightenment thinkers challenged established beliefs in the divine right of kings, mercantilism and aristocratic privilege, and church authority. These ideals spread rapidly through newspapers, pamphlets and books, across the Atlantic to the colonies of France, Spain, Britain, and Portugal and animated the American, French, Haitian and South American Revolutions. Enlightenment ideals were articulated in several founding documents from these revolutions ranging from The Declaration of Independence, to The Declaration of the Rights of Man to Simon Bolivar's Jamaica Letter and create a common intellectual language and culture for the Atlantic Revolutions.
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