Read the following excerpt from a book written by john locke. briefly summarize the passage and explain the impact these ideas had on countries around the world during the 18th and 19th centuries.

John Locke mainly propagated the idea of liberties and freedoms. he maintained that during the social contract, the people did not hand over their natural rights to the leviathan or the government. John Locke ideas served to fuel revolutions across Europe all the way to the Americas where he served as the inspiration for the American Independent movement, and the declaration for independence.

In the late fifteenth century, a major world power that established colonies in the era of old imperialism was france or germany or spain. their colonial activity was mainly limited to america or africa or asia.