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THE EARLY MODERN AGE, imagen - Coggle Diagram

- - - - suurplus were sold in markets
        merchants or traders travelled in search of new markets,
  - - - An economic system in which capital belonged to private owners
  - - - The bankers lent money in exchange for what was called interest. Traders in this period made large profits, so they could pay their loans back and the bankers became rich.
    - - the bill of exchange was created (a document which guaranteed that the banker would pay a merchant a quantity of money)
- - - - Nobility and the clergy.
        A minority, but owned most of the land, the only ones who had access to high political positions.
      - Some privileges: didn´t pay taxes
      - They llived in their castles in the countryside or in palaces in the city.
    - - the majority of the population
      - They paid numerous taxes and didn´t have access to high political positions
      - divided in other small classes
        
        peasants
        
        the largest group, serfs of the feudal lord or noble
        
        burgoisie: the city inhabitants, not ruled by a feudal lord
        
        upper burgioisie
        
        important merchants, bankers and officials.
        
        petit burgioisie
        
        small merchants, less important officials, all types of artisans, artists, servants and labourers.
- - - - Women from novility paid nurses tod to breast feeding