Impact of the enlightenment

STEPS OF A REVOLUTION FIRST STAGE

• Strains appear in the existing order,
• Making it ripe for a revolution. As the
• revolution begins, moderate reformers
• take over.

SECOND STAGE

• Moderate attempts at comprise fail.
• Radicals take over and the revolution
• grows more violent. Often civil war and
• conflicts with neighboring nations
• occur.

THIRD STAGE

• The radicals are replaced by the
• moderates, who may be replaced by
• a return to the old order, with some
• concessions made to reform.