All right, get your party pants on y'all cuz it's time to talk about revolution. We ain't got no time to waste so if you're ready to get them brain cows milked Let's get to it. Now before we get cozy with the major revolutions you need to know, we need to explore the three main factors that got everyone whipped up into a revolutionary fervor. And the first cause, and maybe the most important, was the rise of nationalism, which describes a sense of commonality among a people based on a shared language, religion, social customs, and it's often linked with a desire for territory.
And this was a new development during this period. Like for most of human history, as you've seen in previous units, large states incorporated many diverse peoples within their borders. Like the Ottoman Empire, or the Mongol Empire, or, you know, insert empire name here, none of those those empires were associated with a singular people that shared an ethnicity or a language.