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The Ancien Régime - Coggle Diagram
The Ancien Régime
Economy and society
Economy
dominance of the guilds
domestic trade grew very little
traditional agriculture with very low productivity
foreign trade expanded
Europe's absolute monarchs imposed mercantilism
was based on the idea that a country's wealth depended on how much gold and silver it possesed
Society
nobility and clergy did not pay taxes
the third state had to pay taxes
upper middle class/ bourgueoisie became riches and more powerful
lower middle class/ petite bourgeoisie declined
peasantry and day laborurers sufered beacuse of
rising prices
poor harvest
higher taxes
Phyospohy, science and art
Rationalism and empiricism emerged
empiricism
knowledge could only come from sensory experience and observation
founded by Locke
rationalism
human reason is the only valid source of knowledge
founded by Descartes
Important advances
physics
Evangelista Torricelli invented the barometer
medicine and biology
Anton Leeuwenhoek perfected the microscope
astronomy
Galileo Galiley proved the heliocentric theory
mathematics
Blaise Pascal invented the first mechanical calculator capable of adding and subtracting
