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Early Modern society - Coggle Diagram
Early Modern society
ESTATES OF THE REALM
(dominant form of social organization in Europe.)
Third Estate
The petite bourgeoisie (small merchants)
couldn't compete with the new forms of production.
The peasantry (poor farmers)
They suffered from crop failures, rising prices
The bourgeoisie (merchants)
became richer and more powerful
First and Second estates
They lived off the rent they received from their land.
They paid taxes to the crown
Lesser nobility and lower clergy were often poor.
Maintained their traditional privileges
SOCIETY IN SPAIN
The bourgeoisie was small and insignificant.
The petite bourgeoisie and the peasantry
This caused some people to become beggars, thieves, or bandits
Were impoverished by the economic crisis (XVII)
It increased the people who joined the clergy, because it was a way for the poor to survive in the economic crisis.
They believed that work brought dishonor
they didn't invest in trade