The Enlightenment was the upbringing of new ways of thinking using the scientific method. This created new ideas. One of the ideas created was the rights to man and citizen. For the first time the subjects of monarchies questioned the ways that they were treated. This lead to many different revolutions agains monarchs. Two such revolutions would be the French Revolution and the South-American Revolution. They both sprung up from ideas concerned about rights for all subjects and rights for citizens in general. Because of the oppressive rule of the current king of France and the Spanish governor Hidalgo, the people rose up and retaliated.
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