3pros and 3 cons about napoleon as the ruler of france.

PROS:

1. Napoleon brought a greater degree of religious tolerance regarding Protestantism, Judaism, and Islam. He provided free emancipation for the persecuted Jews and Protestants in France and guaranteed them the right to worship their religion and to own properties.

2. He was an exceptional military leader who conquered most of the European countries in the 19th century. He conquered Spain, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany (Prussia), Egypt, Syria, Austria-Hungary, Switzerland (Helvetic Republic), Italian Peninsula, Malta, Poland (Grand Duchy of Warsaw), Slovenia, and Croatia. Thanks to his conquests, he made a strong, successful and powerful state and provided to French citizens a better quality of life.

3. He established a good government by fixing many of the nation's problems.  First, of a, he ended the terror regime after the Revolution and defeated feudalism. He ensured that troops and contractors got paid on time, he solved the issues with bandits and thieves that had been plaguing parts of the country since the Revolution and instituted the legal code in France, which is still the basis for French law today.

CONS:

1. He established the Napoleonic Code, which favored men over women. For example, a man could divorce his wife if he discovers she is cheating on him, but a woman did not have this type of privilege. Although the Napoleonic Code restricted women's rights, it also provided equal treatment before the law to all the citizens, adopted the metric system and provided religious tolerance.

2. His war campaign against Russia cost the lives of approximately 500,000 men, so he was forced to raise taxes in order to finance the war while France was in an industrial and agricultural crisis.

3. Napoleon maintained the whole Europe at war for almost 20 years. He was responsible for thousands of deaths in the younger generations, his troops were raping women and stealing from locals. Therefore, his conquests caused a lot of damage to other European countries.

the steam engine.

the locomotive.

the telephone.

the telegraph.

the internal combustion engine.

the rifle.

ironclad ships.

electricity/light bulb.

superior technology and improved medical knowledge to foster imperialism. quinine enabled europeans

to survive tropical diseases and venture into the mosquito-infested interiors of africa and asia. the combination

of the steamboat and the telegraph enabled the western powers to increase their mobility and to quickly respond

to any situations that threatened their dominance. the rapid-fire machine gun also gave them a military advantage

and was in convincing africans and asians to accept western control. the following table summarizes the

causes of the new imperialism:

causes of new imperialism

economic military/political humanitarian/religious technological

need for markets need for military bases white man’s burden new medicine

raw materials national security spread of christianity new weapons

source of investments source of

pride—nationalism

social darwinism

(superiority of western

society)

transportation

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