French and American Revolutions: Enlightenment to Napoleon - A Complete Overview

Age of Revolutions goes over the 1700s in Europe and North America, focusing on the Enlightenment, American and French Revolutions, and the Age of Napoleon.

We start off with the Enlightenment, and the various figures associated with the intellectual movement, like Voltaire and Adam Smith, but we also look at the Scientific Revolution that preceded it, with Galileo and Isaac Newton.

We next pick up where we left off in our Early Modern Europe video, taking a look at Austria, Prussia, and Russia as new major players in Europe, along with their Enlightened Absolutist monarchs, and the major wars (War of Austrian Succession, and Seven Years' War).

We then head to North America, where we pick up from our Age of Discovery video, and go through some of the Colonial Wars during the 1600s. We next check out the more major wars between the English and French during the 1700s, culminating in the French and Indian War, and leading into the American Revolution.

We then shift back to Europe, where we take a look at France during the 1700s, leading to the French Revolution. We go through the moderate phase, First French Republic, Reign of Terror, Thermidorian Reaction, and Napoleon's rise to power, along with the French Revolutionary Wars.

Our final chapter focuses on Napoleon as France's head of state, becoming Emperor and the various Napoleonic Wars that follow.

It serves as the last episode for our Early Modern megadocumentary, and should be the final piece in our look at history across the world from 1500 - 1800. All in just 2 hours 22 minutes and 22 seconds!

0:00 Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
17:36 Enlightened Absolutism (Russia, Prussia, Russia)
36:24 Colonial Wars
1:06:07 American Revolution
1:18:33 French Revolution
1:59:52 Age of Napoleon

The Early Modern Series:
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Welcome to Early Modern series of the World History Summarized project! The entire project is meant to summarize broad topics in history and balances political history and events, with social/daily life, and culture. If you've watched our History of the World documentary, the project is a perfect next step. The videos are standalone, but presented in a chronological fashion. This series "the Early Modern" takes place after our megadocumentaries "The Ancient World" and "The Medieval World". It will be divided into 5 videos about the Early Modern period (c. 1500 - 1800) all over the world, and will be called Phase 3. Once these 5 videos are completed, we will move onto Phase 4 of the project, but this series will be considered completed, and compiled into ONE MEGA-DOCUMENTARY containing all 5 parts.

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Music Used:
Alexander Nakarada - Night of Mystery
Alexander Nakarada - Chase
Kevin Macleod - Big Drumming
Kevin Macleod - Crossing the Chasm
Kevin Macleod - Floating Cities
Kevin Macleod - Path of the Goblin King
Kevin Macleod - Wizardtorium

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