1. How can we explain why a revolution broke out in France in 1789? Just a question of popping corks, things all coming to a head at about the same time?

2. How do you see it? Can you come up with a better analogy/metaphor?

3. A simple list of individual reasons? 1 2 3 4 5 Surely not

4. What else then? Perhaps grouping the types of causes

5. Unfairness in society Money problems Poor harvest price of bread King’s behaviour Ideas around at the time Revolution 1789 Types of causes

6. Was it as simple as one cause plus another, then another led to revolution?

7. Like the domino theory?

8. Or simply Loads of problems building up, then one final straw?

9. How about tension builds up over time, not one specific event just things coming to a head?

10. A spark that lights the fire Petrol made fire more likely Logs are background causes Perhaps even a bonfire Wind that fans the flame; preconditions for revolution

11. Economic Financial problems DEBT 1700s 1789 Unfairness in French society How can we explain the sudden change why the Revolution happened in France in 1789? Ideas from abroad and Enlightenment Bad harvests Unemployment was getting worse What’s the trigger?