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EARLY MODERN SOCIETY
ESTATES
FIRST AND SECOND ESTATES (clergy and nobility)
Exempt from paying tax to the crown.
Lived on the rent which they received from their lands
Maintained their traditional privileges.
Lesser nobility and the lower clergy (rural priests and monks)
Were often poor.
THIRD ESTATE
Did not have any properties and had to pay tax.
During the Early Modern Age
The lower middle class/petite bourgeoisie
Declined because they couldn't compete with new forms of production.
The peasantry (poor farmers and labourers)
Suffered during the 17th century
poor harvests, rising prices and the higher taxes
The upper middle class/bourgeioisie
Became rich and powerful as the European economy prospered.
In the Early Modern Age
Estates of the realm
Dominant form of social organisation in Europe.
SOCIETY IN SPAIN
Peculiar characteristics
Spanish nobles
Believed that work brought dishonour
Didn't usually invest in productive or profit-making activities
Bourgeoisie
Small and insignificant
Petite bourgeoisie and the peasantry
Became poorer as a result of the 17th-century economic crisis
It caused some people to become beggars, thieves or bandits.
The number of people entering the clergy increased.
Since it was a way for poorer people to survive
