Connecting to Enduring Issues

This unit feeds the following enduring issues most heavily:

• Power and abuse of power: Reign of Terror, Napoleon's dictatorship, suppression of 1848
• Desire for human rights: Declaration of Rights of Man, Wollstonecraft, abolitionism, Haitian Revolution
• Inequality: The Three Estates, slavery in the era of natural rights, exclusion of women
• Conflict: French Revolutionary Wars, Napoleonic Wars, Wars of German Unification
• Cultural diffusion: Enlightenment ideas spreading to the Americas, Napoleonic Code spreading across Europe
• Nationalism: Italian and German unification, Latin American independence