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The thing every empire calls treason until it loses, then calls history.
means A forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system, or more broadly any sweeping, fundamental change in the way things are done.
from From Latin 'revolvere,' to roll back or turn around (re-, 'back,' plus 'volvere,' 'to roll' — a cousin of 'volume' and 'voluble'). It first described the stately turning of the heavens — planets revolving in their orbits — and only later spun down to earth to mean the violent turning-over of a state. So the word that once tracked the motion of stars came to name the moment a people decide to change which way the world spins.
- original meaning
- Came from astronomy, a celestial body returning full circle
- diet detail
- French revolutionaries renamed playing cards to ditch kings
- calendar reboot
- France restarted time at Year One in 1792
- contagious timing
- 1848 saw uprisings sweep fifty European countries at once
- often circular
- Many revolutions install the tyranny they overthrew
french revolution — overthrew monarchy in france 1789-1799, executed king louis xvi
russian revolution — bolshevik uprising in 1917 that created soviet union under lenin
haitian revolution — enslaved people defeated french colonial army 1791-1804, first black republic
american revolution — thirteen colonies declared independence from britain in 1776