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THE 17TH CENTURY(II) - Coggle Diagram

- - - - bourgeois traders prospered
        through the craft and trade industries
      - profits
        
        become more powerfull
        
        gained access to political positions
        
        become part of the privileged class
    - - economy barely recovered
      - objective was to live off the rents they received from
        their lands and possessions and accumulate noble titles
  - - - didn't pay taxes
      - political or military obligations but mainly
        dedicated their time to hunting and social events
      - lived in palaces
    - - important traders, bankers
        and high public officials
    - - artisans, small-scale traders and labourers
      - disadvantaged by having to pay taxes
        and badly affected by the crise
    - - majority of the population
      - situation very precarious
    - - increased in number
      - lived in the cities and had to beg
        or depend on charity to survive
  - - - violent social revolts broke
        out( majority peasants)