I enjoyed reading about Zhou Enlai whose famous quote "It's too early to say" about the French Revolution just proved the crazy amount of controversies that were being started all over. I think the questions that are raised about whether or not the revolutions were really worth it and what did they really promote, bring up a valid point in this time period. For the people that actually benefited from them, they gave way to many possibilities, but in the end there was so much injustice that it was pretty much impossible to not have a revolutions. For the people that encountered the opposite outcome, these types of revolutionary changes only created more problems or "disasters". I feel like there are so many pros and cons and so many questions that can be raised from the revolutions.
"Were revolutions the product of misery, injustice, and oppresion?"
"Did the American Revolution enable the growth of the United States as an economic and political "great power?"
"Did the French Revolution and the threat of subsequent revolutions encourage the democratic reforms that followed in the nineteenth century?"
Interesting.
It's also really interesting to try learning this while sitting on the beach but hey, gotta do whatcha gotta do :)
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