“Europe was embroiled in near constant conflict for centuries. Violent power struggles between nations and rulers shook the continent. Not until the Enlightenment and the French Revolution of 1789 did a new idea of Europe emerge based on common values: freedom, equality and fraternalism. But before these ideas prevail, exaggerated nationalism drives Europeans into two devastating world wars.” (51 minutes.) Click.
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