The starting of this era was the French Revolution. The French Revolution was a social revolution caused by the growing middle class. The Revolution caused a change of power in the government. The power went from the kings and nobles to the people of the country. During the revolution the Declaration of the Rights of Man was created. This declaration stated: All men are created equal, natural rights of liberty, security, property, and resistan

ce to oppression were given to all citizens, the government existed to protect these rights, the due process of law was created, also the idea of innocent until proven guilty. These laws in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and other ideas soon spread across Europe. The French Revolution proved that the people have the ability to overthrow the government. This scared many countries in Europe, because other monarchies did not want to lose their power. The French Revolution showed that other countries could have a social revolution as well. The idea of the nation-state also emerged from the French Revolution. The nation-state's general concept is that the power of the nation resides with the people of the nation. All these ideas that were brought out by the French Revolution were spreading all over the rest of Europe. Most of these countries went to war with France for what they were doing in the Revolution. France was destroying the monarchy and replacing it with a new government, and other countries were afraid that this would happen to their country as well. These ideas that were spreading because of the French Revolution impacted other countries by filling citizens minds of those countries with the same ideas. Napoleon's conquering of countries only greatened these spread of ideas. These citizens thought they could do the same a France did, and overthrow their government. These ideas greatly affected the way people in the nineteenth century thought about their government. If the citizens did not approve of their government they could overthrow it as proven in the French Revolution.

When Napoleon Bonaparte took control he made many changes that shaped the character of Europe in the Nineteenth Century. First off, Napoleon had schools built all over France to educate the country. The education would enhance the economy of the nation. Many other countries would in turn, build schools following the changes that the French took on. Napoleon created the Napoleonic Code, which he imposed over all the lands that he conquered. The Napoleonic Code was a set of codes, which included: no more hereditary or social distinction, no more class privileges, peasants would be freed of serfdom, and guilds and local oligarchies lost all their power. These laws provided more freedom to

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