Step 1: you will choose 5 ideas that are necessary for a revolution to take place. You are basically defining a revolution here. Be sure to describe the terms you choose.

step 2: rank the 5 ideas and provide a rationale for your ranking

step 3:you will choose a revolution (current or past - not the US revolution) and analyze whether it meets your definition/criteria of a revolution. This should include specific examples.

1 - Critical thinking

2 - Gathering of new ideas

3 - Questioning the established power

4 - Economic crisis

5 - Social crisis

Any society that has intellectual production develops critical thinking in pursuit of its own growth. And also in what keeps political forces alert to maintain power or to make a change. In the exchange of ideas, new proposals are generated that promote the change of paradigm. These question the established power as well as society when it is overwhelmed by an economic crisis. Which often leads to riots and social crisis.

French Revolution:

With absolutism in decline economic hardships caused frequent revolts. They take more and more force the ideas of the Enlightenment go against the absolute power and the participation of the clergy in the questions of State. Among the thinkers of the revolution are Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu and Voltaire.