Essential Question: Why do Revolutions start?

Revolutions are generally caused by a society being unhappy with something in their country. However, what causes this discontent varies upon time period, situation and so many other factors. Looking at what we learned, the revolution of the 1600s and 1700s, reasons for uprising were mainly classism and absolute monarchy which both connect to inequality among the folk. However, today causes for revolutions are a little bit different, since they mainly relate to violations of human rights, people not getting their basic needs such as food, water, shelter, sanitation etc. The most recent revolutions were all against corrupt governments. When generalized basically, revolutions start due to the folk being dissatisfied with something going on in their country, and uniting in order to fight that.​

How does what we learned connect to the real world?

Revolutions are the reason why society functions the way it does today. With the ideas of the enlightenment, revolutions brought the first ideas of a union as a country, with everyone as equals, ideas which later inspired democracy. Also, revolutions themselves are still part of the ‘real’ world today. In 2010, there were the Arab springs, a series of anti-government uprisings in various countries in North Africa and the Middle East. The revolution that is still of terrible actuality today, however, is happening in Syria, fighting dictator Assad. Revolutions connect the real world by still occurring today while also having shaped our society to how it functions today.