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THE EARLY MODERN AGE, image, image, image, image, image, image, image,…

- - - - prominent merchants and business owners
        
        became richer
    - - suffered during the 17th century
        
        poor harvests
        
        higher taxes which they had to pay
        
        to the crown
        
        to the clergy
        
        to the nobility
        
        rising prices
    - - small merchants and craftsmen
        
        declined because they couldn't compete with new forms of production
- - - - which received from their lands
  - - - were often poor
- - - - the petite bourgeoisie and the peasantry became poorer
      - this poverty caused some people became
        
        thieves
        
        beggars
        
        bandits
    - - the number of people entering the clergy increased