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    4th ESO.

    History
    Bilingual Section 1
    Unit 1. Ancien Regime and enlightenment

    2. Economy and society of the Ancien Regime


    Economy Society
    The economy of the old regime presented the The society was divided into three groups
    following characteristics: called estates: the nobility, the clergy and the
    Third Estate. Except for the clergy, everybody
    - Importance of traditional agriculture,
    was born into an estate or closed group. The
    characterized by a low productivity, for
    nobility and the clergy were privileged estates
    being directed to the self-consumption and
    and so they had advantages. For example, they
    by the use of very archaic techniques and
    did not pay taxes, they did not do manual
    tools (Roman plough, fallow).
    work, and they held the most important
    - Craftsmen could not increase their
    positions in government. They kept their
    production due to the restrictions that were
    economic power thanks to the collection of a
    still imposed by the guilds, associations of
    tithe (a percentage of the harvest) and rents for
    artisans of the same profession.
    their land. However, the small nobility and the
    - The domestic trade in Europe was held
    low clergy (rural priests) barely had economic
    back because of the multitude of internal
    resources.
    customs and tariffs and the poor quality of
    The third estate or common people, without
    the ground transportation. The international
    privileges, paid taxes. The high bourgeoisie
    trade is going to develop thanks to the
    (great merchants and entrepreneurs) got rich
    discovery of America and the establishment
    by economic development so they reclaimed
    of new routes that allowed to create
    political rights and social prestige. The small
    enormous colonial empires.
    bourgeoisie (small merchants and craftsmen)
    During the 18th century the absolute monarchs was ruined by not being able to compete with
    imposed the mercantilism, the economic the new forms of
    system of the Ancient Regimen. Economists of production. The
    the period believed than a country’s power situation of the
    came from its wealth. Nations wealth was peasants and day
    determined by store of precious metals (gold laborers made worse in
    and silver). the 17th century due to
    the bad harvests, the
    Thus, the importation of foreign goods should rise of the prices and
    be limited through high tariffs (protectionist the taxes that were to
    policy). pay to the king, the
    nobility and the clergy.

    1. Explain the meaning of the following words:


    a. Fallow

    b. Guild

    c. Tariff

    d. Mercantilism
    e. Protectionist policy
    4th ESO. History
    Bilingual Section 2
    Unit 1. Ancien Regime and enlightenment

    2. Make a pyramid of the society in the Ancien Regime and answer the questions:

    a. Which are the privileged groups?


    b. Which group is at the bottom? Why?
    c. Where did you place bourgeoisie? Why?

    3. In pairs, look at the following painting and discuss the questions below.

    a. What people can you see in the paintings?


    b. Where are they and what are they doing?
    c. What clothes are they wearing?
    d. What social class do they probably belong to?
    e. What things do they probably do every day?
    f. How are they probably different to people in other social classes of the 18th
    century?

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