This week in class we reviewed Napoleon and what his impact on social, economic and political systems of Europe. In this blog post I will explain these impacts.
When Napoleon was young he was considered an outsider and spent most of his time in his studies. Napoleon’s career started at the age of nine, he became Brigadier General during the french revolution. Napoleon conquered most of Europe, Italy, Austria, Rhineland, Spain, Holland, Belgium, Venice, Berlin, Moscow, and Egypt.
This shows the main area of where Napoleon conquered and the places that wanted to be allies with Napoleon, so that they would be protected.
He was a great military strategist and a motivational speaker. Napoleon was admired by many for other reasons such as, he built massive armies, he was a very good leader and he conquered many countries. To restore economic prosperity Napoleon controlled prices, encouraged new industry and built roads and canals.
Napoleon had a Positive impact on the political system because he conquered many places and was rewarded with a lot of land and money, to be able to expand the empire and be able to buy more things. He had both a negative impact and a positive impact on the economic system. It was a positive impact because he created new industries, roads and many other things to strengthen the economy and make it so that the poor and get a job and make money. It was a negative impact for the other countries because he made the economy even better by stealing high trade from the countries he took control of. Finally, there was also a positive impact impact on the social system because of how he established a meritocracy, which is a government selected on the basis of their ability, in all the places he conquered, this would allow people to be rewarded on the work they put in.
Soon after there were arguments in favor of resuming monarchies and there were arguments in favor of redesigning the government. The advantages of resuming monarchies is that the monarchies like being in power, it would restore social order, there is only one person in charge and it keeps things from getting complicated. The advantages of redesigning governments is that it gives power to all, it was more fair, it gave them freedom to design whatever kind of government they think the country needs and people get more of a say.
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