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Early Modern Society - Coggle Diagram
Early Modern Society
The estates of the realm continue to be dominant from social organisations in Europe
Frist and second Estates
Clergy and nobility were in that Estate
They manteined their privileges
Exment from paying tax to the crown
They live from the rent of their lands and the taxes they collected from peasantry
Lesser novility and lower clergy
Rural priest and monks were often poor
Thrid Estates
Din't have any properties and had to pay tax
The upper midle class or burgoise
Composed of proiment merchatns and buisness owners
Became more richer and more powerful as the European economi prospered
Lower midlle class or petite burgeoise
Composed mostly of small merchants and craftmen
Declined because thy could not compete with new forms of productions
The peasantry (poor farmers and labouresrs)
Suffered during the 17th century because of poor harvests, rising prices and the higher taxes wich they have to pay to the crow, cregy and novility
Society in Espain
Its on peculiar caracteristics in this period
Spanis nobles belive that work brouht disonour because of that they did not ivest in productive or profit-makin activities like trade
The burgeoise was small and significant
The petite burgeoise and the and the peasantry became poorer as a result of the 17th century crisis, because of that some people became thief, beggars or bandits
The number of people entering to the clergy increase, since it was a way to survive during the crisis
