The ideas of the Enlightenment - individual liberty and the moral equality of all persons - inspired the French Revolution in 1789, which replaced the hereditary monarchy of France with a democratic government. This became the model for political reform across Europe, Great Britain and the colonies in the Americas and Australia. This is why the French Revolution is considered to be so historically significant.
Leaving out a few words, are the authors actually saying that "The French Revolution in 1789...became the model for political reform...(in) the colonies in the Americas"? I believe there's a group of about 300 million people on a different continent who were taught at a very young age that in 1776, a document was adopted that says, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
The framers of the American constitution not only had the ideas of the Enlightenment as a basis, but also the constitution of The Iroquois Confederacy of Nations as a model.
Eurocentrism?
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