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THE 17th CENTURY, NAHIA TXARROALDE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Thay coul develop trade
  - - - Their objective was to live off the rents they received from their lands and possessions and accumulate noble titles.
  - - - They didn't pay taxes
      - They had political or military obligations but mainly dedicated their time to hunting and social events.
      - They lived in good palaces and they had lands, which were worked by peasants
    - - Important traders, bankers and high public officials
      - The English and Dutch bourgeoisie eventually gained access to political positions.
    - - Included artisans, small-scale traders and labourers
      - They were disadvantaged by having to pay taxes and badly affected by the crises
    - - Formed the majority of the population
      - They became very vulnerable during agricultural crises and many of them had to resort to begging
    - - They lived in the cities and had to beg or depend on charity to survive.
  - - - majority were peasants, who were sometimes led by discontented nobles or members of the bourgeoisie.
    - - France
        
        they were politically motivated
      - British
        
        political motives were combined with religious rivalries
      - Spain
        
        they were led by secessionist movements
      - Russia
        
        they were due to ethnic divisions
- - - - Prices rose and people didn't have enough food
        
        This situation is called a subsistence crisis
        
        Hunger spread, resulting in a decrease in the population or demographic decline throughout Europe.
    - - Wars
        
        Resulted in areas being plundered and a reduction in the workforce in the countryside.
        
        Agricultural production decrease
      - Plagues
        
        Plagues and epidemics caused an increase in mortality
      - Farmers migrated to the cities
        
        this way they avoided taxes
      - Agricultural techniques were outdated
        
        low productivity
      - Bad harverst
    - - Increase in the population, compensating for the previous decline.
      - Fewer wars
      - There was a growth in colonial trade, with the incorporation of English, French and Dutch traders
      - Private trading companies
      - The textile industry grew in some countries
      - The monarchs intervened in the economy, implementing the mercantile system
        
        Increase the amount of precious metals
        
        Protect national industries by taxing imported products
  - - - The expulsion of the Moriscos, meant that more than 300 000 people left the Peninsula, the majority were farmers
        
        Negative effect on agriculture
      - Many farmers left the countryside due to the hard way of life
        
        They moved to the cities
      - Pícaros became more predominant
        
        Low social class people, who manage to survive by deceiving and cheating others
    - - The Spanish monarchy ran out of resources from the Americas
      - Mines were almost empty, and the Spanish monarchs' main source of income decreased.
      - Their sea route to the Americas was constantly under threat from pirates and smugglers.
      - There was a crisis in the craft industry
      - Trade with the Americas decreased
        
        The rest of the colonial empires established trading posts in the Americas in order to sell their products there