The forces that drove the revolution of the 1700s, 1800s, and early 1900s were control, money, political reform, social reform, economic reform, coal, inventors and entrepreneurs, and textile machines.
Enlightenment ideas about government provided a philosophical basis for the revolutions of the late 1700s and early 1800s.
They replaced them with more democratic forms of government. They also triggered a series of nationalist uprisings that let to the formation of new nation-states.
