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Montesquieu wasan enlightenment philosophe who believed in the idea of sepereation of powers.
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Thomas Jefferson wrote The Declaration of Independence, which incorporated the enlgightenments ideas of Locke and Rouseau.
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The French Revolutions started becasue of high grain prices.
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Napoleon was in fact not French, but Corsican.
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When the Pope was about to crown Napoleon, Napoleon took the crown from the Pope and crowned himself, suggesting that he was even more powerful than the Pope.
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Haiti was the only successful slave revolt.
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Hidalgo was a poor but well educated priest.
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After Napoleon was defeated, he was exiled to the remote Atlantic Island of St. Helena.