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ANCIEN REGIME - Coggle Diagram

- - - - people must learn as must as posible
      - sahre their knowledge in order to educate and enlighten
    - - only real source of knowledge
    - - would lead to economic growth and improve people's wellbeing
    - - are crucial
      - belief taht a better society would only be possible if all men were free and equal before the law
  - - - books
      - newspapers
      - academies
      - salons
    - - d'alembert and diderot
      - collection of writtings
      - it summarised knowledge in alphabetical order
  - - - Voltaire
        
        strong monarchy
        
        he also thought power should be limited by parliament
      - Rousseau
        
        popular
        sovereignty
        
        power resided with people rather than crown
      - Montesquieu
        
        separation of powers
        
        three branches
        
        judicial
        
        executive
        
        legislative
        
        branches separate from one another
  - - - belief wealth of nation derives from its natural resources
      - believed
        
        agriculture, country's main source of wealth
        
        craftmanchip and trade are secondary activities, since they rely on agriculture
        
        absolute monarchs, sould not intervene in the economy
  - - - state should not intervene in processes of production or exchange of goods
    - - free trade
        
        would mean the exchange of goods between countries without any restrictions
      - free competition
        
        would force the business owner to improve the quality of his or her products and/or reduce prices in order to sell
      - freedom of production for business owners
        
        they could produce as much as the market demanded
- - - - louis XIV absolute monarch
        
        controlled government and intervened in the economy
        
        doesn't call estates general
      - predominate in Western Europe
      - crown unlimited authority
  - - - traditional agriculture with very low production
      - the dominsnce of the guilds
      - domestics trade grew very little
    - - idea that a conuntry's wealth depended on how much gold and silver it possessed
    - - first and Second Estates
        
        have privilages
        
        did not pay taxes
        
        collect tithes
        
        lesser nobility and lower clergy were very poor
      - third Estate
        
        petite bourgeoisie
        
        small merchants and craftmen
        
        declined they couldn't compete with new forms of production
        
        peasantry and day labourers
        
        suffered
        
        poor harversts
        
        rising prices
        
        higher taxes
        
        bourgeoisie
        
        prominet merchants and business owners
        
        became richer and more powerfull