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Revolution - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Government Overthrow
    - - The spark moment where the revolution started: On a December 17th in 2010, a produce vendor in Tunisia named Mohamed Bouazizi stood in front of the government office and set himself on a fire, killing himself. He was approached by Tunisian authorities about his unlicensed cart.
        
        He was approached by Tunisian authorities about his unlicensed cart. He offered to pay a fine but instead his vegetables were confiscated and he was publicly humiliated by the police. Afterwards, the local officials refused to hear complaints of harassment.
        
        He become martyr who inspired others who were suffering from unemployments at the hands of a corrupt government.
        
        Protesters used social media which allowed protest to spread at social media speed.
        
        After few weeks, the Tunisian protest spread across the region.
        
        January 11: Tunisian government fell apart and President ben Ali fled the country.
        
        February 11: Egyptian President steped down
        
        June 2011: Yemen's government was overthrown.
        
        June 2011: President Muammar Gaddafi was captured and killed by Libyan rebel militia.
        
        Algeria
      - Corrupt government
      - Negative impacts: In some cases, the uprisings were co-opted by religious extremists like ISIS, who embraced the revolt against secular Arab regimes for their own agenda.
        
        Rebel group stepped in to fill the void using strong arm tactics and even terrorism.
    - - Middle East in North Africa
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    - - Cuba
    - - Corruption of American corporations
        
        American corporations bought up land originally seized from indigenous people and used it for profit and export, even keeping most of it uncultivated while locals starved.
  - - - France was governed by an ancient regime of 3 rigid social classes called Estates: King, Catholic Clergy/Nobles, Merchants
        
        Peasants paid taxes to king and other estates.
        
        In bad harvest years, taxation could leave peasants with almost nothing while the king and nobles lived lavishly on their extracted wealth.
        
        Jacques Necker, the Finance Minister, pushed tax reforms and won public support by openly publishing the government's finances.
        
        But the king's advisors strongly opposed these initiatives.
        
        The king called a meeting of the Estates-General, an assembly of representatives from the 3-estates.
        
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    - - France