3.1 Great revolutions - French

• France before 1789: the Ancien Regime and the three estates
• Political, economic, social and intellectual causes of the French Revolution
• Immediate causes and the outbreak of the revolution
• Significance of the French Revolution to world economies
• Best practices from the French Revolution in daily interactions

• classify the causes of the French revolution
• explain the significance of the French revolution to world economies
• design the best practices from the French revolution in daily interactions
• appreciate the significance of the French revolution to the world economies today

“What lessons do we learn from the French revolution?”

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1. Why the French Revolution happened
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   France before 1789, and the political, economic, social, intellectual and immediate causes of the revolution.
2. What the revolution changed, and what it teaches
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   The significance of the French Revolution for world economies and politics, its dangers, and the best practices it leaves us.
3. Daily life under the Ancien Regime
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   How taxes, feudal dues, Versailles, parlements and bread actually worked, so the three estates are not only a diagram.
4. Enlightenment ideas and the American example
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   How Montesquieu, Rousseau, Voltaire and the American Revolution made people believe the old order could be changed.
5. 1789: from a meeting to a revolution
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   The ordered steps of 1789: Estates-General, Tennis Court Oath, Bastille, abolition of feudalism, Declaration of Rights, march on Versailles.
6. Stages of the revolution, 1789 to 1799
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   From constitutional monarchy through republic and Terror to Napoleon's coup, and why institutions failed faster than they were rebuilt.
7. Economic legacies of the revolution, in Kenya and the world
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   Metric measures, merit, tax by ability to pay, one market, free labour and predictable law - traced from 1789 to a Kenyan shop, classroom and payslip.
8. Designing best practices from the revolution
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   Learners design, not only list, daily practices drawn from equality before the law, merit, due process, fair contribution and refusal of mob justice.