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Period: 1501 to
Antiguo Régimen
Antiguo Régimen fue el sistema político, social y económico en Europa durante el siglo XVIII. Finalizo con la Revolución francesa de 1789-1799. El Antiguo Régimen está caracterizado por el absolutismo, la sociedad estamental y la economía agraria de subsistencia. -
Voltaire
François-Marie Arouet was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state He lived in the 18th century in the Modern aged, he also participated in the separation of powers theory. -
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Ilustración
Corriente intelectual que cuestiona los principios del Antiguo Régimen. Comenzó en la Edad Moderna en Francia. Tenía cuatro rasgos principales: a) la razón debe aplicarse en todos los ámbitos de la vida; b) todas las personas tenían derechos entre ellos y fundamenal, la libertad, c) el conocimiento era la base de la felicidad y d) la tolerancia debe ser la base de la convivencia. -
Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer. He lived in the Modern age in the 18th century. His political philosophy influenced the progress of the Enlightenment throughout Europe, as well as aspects of the French Revolution and the development of modern political, economic and educational thought. -
Montesquieu
He was one of the greatest philosophers of the Enlightenment. He was born in France in the Late modern age (18th century). he was known for his theory of separation of powers. He wrote "the spirit of lows". His political ideas greatly influenced the French Revolution. -
Enciclopedia
Es una obra en la que se hallan todos los conocimientos demostrados. Se originó en la Edad Moderna a mediados del siglo XVIII en Francia. El propósito era reunir toda la sabiduría en un solo libro, fue dirigido por Denis Diderot y Jean le Round. En esta obra participaron más de 140 autores. -
Adam Smith
Adam Smith was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher. He lived in the Modern age in the 18th century. He was the pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment. He is also known as ''The Father of Economics'' or ''The Father of Capitalism'' In his work, Adam Smith introduced the actual free market economic theory. -
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was an American statesman, lawyer, philosopher and Founding Father who served as the third president of the United States.The principal author of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson was a proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights, motivating American colonists to break from the Kingdom of Great Britain and form a new nation; he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level. -
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Revolución Industrial
La Revolución Industrial o Primera Revolución Industrial es el proceso de transformación económica, social y tecnológica que se inició en la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII en el Reino de Gran Bretaña, que se extendió unas décadas después a Europa y América. Dio lugar al mayor conjunto de transformaciones económicas, tecnológicas y sociales de la historia, supuso el paso desde una economía rural basada en la agricultura y el comercio a una de carácter urbano, industrializada y mecanizada. -
George Washington
George Washington was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. Previously, he led Patriot forces to victory in the nation's War for Independence. He presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787 which established the U.S. Constitution and a federal government. Washington has been called the "Father of His Country" for his manifold leadership in the formative days of the new nation. -
Louis XVI
Louis XVI was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. In 1765, at the death of his father, Louis, son and heir apparent of Louis XV, Louis-Auguste became the new dauphin of France. Upon his grandfather's death on 10 May 1774, he assumed the title "King of France and Navarre", which he used until 4 September 1791, when he received the title of "King of the French" until the monarchy was abolished on 21 September 1792. -
Robespierre
Maximilien François Marie Isidore de Robespierre was a French lawyer and statesman who was one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution. As a member of the Constituent Assembly and the Jacobin Club, he campaigned for universal manhood suffrage, and the abolition both of celibacy for the clergy and of slavery. He played an important part in the agitation which brought about the fall of the French monarchy iand the summoning of a National Convention. -
Revolución Americana
The American Revolution was a colonial revolt. The American Patriots in the Thirteen Colonies defeated the British in the American Revolutionary War (1775–1783) with the assistance of France, winning independence from Great Britain and establishing the United States of America.The American colonials proclaimed "no taxation without representation" because even though Great Britain had a parliamentary monarchy, they didn't had any representant and the king acted like a absolute monarch with them -
James Watt
James Watt was a Scottish inventor, mechanical engineer, and chemist who improved on Thomas Newcomen's steam engine with his Watt steam engine in 1776, which was fundamental to the changes brought by the Industrial Revolution in both his country Great Britain and the rest of the world. -
Declaración de Independencia de Estados Unidos
Documento redactado en Filadelfia el 4 de julio de 1776 que proclamó (ilegalmente) a las 13 colonias británicas en América independientes.Su principal escritor fue Thomas Jefferson. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte was a French statesman and military leader. He was Emperor of the French as Napoleon I from 1804 until 1814 and again briefly in 1815 during the Hundred Days. Napoleon dominated European and global affairs for more than a decade while leading France against a series of coalitions in the Napoleonic Wars. He won most of these wars and the vast majority of his battles, building a large empire that ruled over much of continental Europe before its final collapse in 1815. -
Revolución Francesa
La Revolución Francesa fue un conflicto social y político, con varios periodos de violencia, que tuvo lugar Francia e implicó a algunos otros Estados de Europa que estaban a favor o en contra de la revolución. Se inició con la Asamblea Nacional (formada por la burguesía) en 1789 y finalizó con el golpe de Estado de Napoleón Bonaparte en 1799. -
George Stephenson
George Stephenson was an English civil and mechanical engineer. Renowned as the "Father of Railways", Stephenson was considered by the Victorians a great example of diligent application and thirst for improvement. Self-help advocate Samuel Smiles particularly praised his achievements. His chosen rail gauge, sometimes called 'Stephenson gauge', was the basis for the 4 feet 8 1⁄2 inches (1,435 mm) standard gauge used by most of the world's railways. -
Congreso de Viena
El Congreso de Viena fue un encuentro internacional celebrado en la capital austriaca, convocado con el objetivo de restablecer las fronteras de Europa tras la derrota de Napoleón Bonaparte y reorganizar las ideologías políticas del Antiguo Régimen. Dio paso a la Restauración, una época de vuelta al absolutismo monárquico. -
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was an American statesman and lawyer who served as the 16th president of the United States. Lincoln led the nation through the American Civil War, its bloodiest war and its greatest moral, constitutional, and political crisis. He preserved the Union, abolished slavery, strengthened the federal government, and modernized the U.S. economy. -
Mijail Bakunin
Mikhail Bakunin was a Russian revolutionary anarchist and founder of collectivist anarchism. He is considered among the most influential figures of anarchism and one of the principal founders of the social anarchist tradition. Bakunin's prestige as an activist also made him one of the most famous ideologues in Europe, gaining substantial influence amongst radicals throughout Russia and Europe. -
Karl Marx
He was a German philosopher, economist, historian, sociologist, political theorist, journalist and socialist revolutionary. Due to his political publications, Marx became stateless and lived in exile with his wife and children in London for decades, where he continued to develop his thought in collaboration with German thinker Friedrich Engels and publish his writings, researching in the reading room of the British Museum. His best-known titles are, The Communist Manifesto, and the Das Kapital. -
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon was a French politician and the founder of mutualist philosophy. He was the first person to declare himself an anarchist, using that term and is widely regarded as one of the ideology's most influential theorists. Proudhon is even considered by many to be the "father of anarchism". He became a member of the French Parliament after the Revolution of 1848, where after he referred to himself as a federalist. -
Thomas Alva Edison
Thomas Alva Edison was an American inventor and businessman who has been described as America's greatest inventor. He developed many devices in fields such as electric power generation, sound recording, and motion pictures. His inventions, like the electric light bulb, have had a big impact on the modern industrialized world. He was one of the first inventors to apply the principles of organized science and teamwork to the process of invention, working with many researchers and employees. -
AIT
La Asociación Internacional de los Trabajadores (AIT), es una organización internacional que une a sindicatos de diferentes países. La tendencia en que se encuadran las organizaciones integrantes pertenece al anarcosindicalismo o al sindicalismo revolucionario. Fue fundada en Londres y asistieron sindicalistas ingleses, anarquistas y socialistas franceses y republicanos italianos. -
Friedrich Engels
Friedrich Engels was a German philosopher, historian, communist, social scientist, sociologist, journalist and businessman. His father was an owner of large textile factories in Salford, England and in Barmen, Prussia. he was the co author of The Communist Manifiesto and he gave economical support to Karl Marx with the Das Kapital. -
Primero de Mayo
El Día Internacional de los Trabajadores o Primero de Mayo es la conmemoración del movimiento obrero mundial. Es una jornada que se ha utilizado habitualmente para realizar diferentes reivindicaciones sociales y laborales a favor de las clases trabajadoras por parte, fundamentalmente, de los movimientos anarquistas y comunistas, entre otros. Comenzó como un revuelta en honor a los mártires de Chicago.
