Gulliver's Travels | Compare and Contrast

1720s: Robert Walpole is England's first prime minister, and German-born King George I gives him a great deal of authority to run the country.

Today: Britain's ruler is only a figurehead and the prime minister is the leader who wields real power. The House of Lords and House of Commons still make up the Parliament.

1720s: The Great Awakening begins to sweep the American colonies, as people are converted to Protestantism by charismatic evangelists. In England, John Wesley, an Anglican priest, begins to form the Evangelical Methodist movement in...

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