Eurocentrism is the thought that Europe's culture and people are the center of everything. It even goes to the extent that Europe is better than everyone else. Eurocentrism is extremely biased and only gives one side of the story. It leaves out many rich cultural characteristics that aren't included in European history. The Echoes of the Atlantic Revolutions was a push, pull occurrence. It started with the Enlightenment in Europe, specifically France. The Enlightenment ideals made their way over to North America which caused an American Enlightenment. From the American Enlightenment came the American Revolution. This revolution came from the push of people wanting to become independent plus they didn't want the British to get back any kind of control or make back their money. So the American's revolted and were even partially helped by France to succeed. After the French helped the American's gain their independence, they followed and started the French Revolution and they brought ideas from North America. Their goal was to make the 2% who weren't paying taxes, the aristocrats and the church, start to help because it wasn't a fair system. The king considered this and called on the old group of the estates general to listen to all sides and help figure this problem out. When they did this, it was quickly realized that the vote was always going to be 2-1. So as a result, the third estate revolted and declared themselves as the legit government and killed the 2% by chopping off their heads. The next revolution that followed was in Haiti. Haiti had hoped to be treated better after seeing so many other revolutions going on and with their government treating them so unethically. When they saw that that's not what was happening they rose upon too and succeeded. This was one of the only successful slave revolt.
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