1 What is the Old Regime?
2 Look at:
And answer the questions:
1. Describe the image. What does this image shows?
2. What percentage of population belonged to Church?
3. What is a tithe?
4. What were the main functions of first state?
5. What percentage of population belonged to second Estate?
6. Did the privileged estates pay any taxes?
7. What kind of power did the nobility have?
8. What percentage of population belonged to third Estate?
9. Who belonged to this Estate?
10. What this sentence means :50% of their income went to taxes?
3 At home : Prepare your mindmad with the
main characteristics of Ancien Regime, you can use a presentation tool as genially or prezy.
4. Answer these questions.
QUIZLET
5. Activities
- Complete :
________________ was a political ,economic and social ________ of Europe
before to the French Revolution.
before to the French Revolution.
An_______ was a major political or social group or class,
one once having specific political powers,as the clergy and________.
The _________estate had to pay heavy_________.
one once having specific political powers,as the clergy and________.
The _________estate had to pay heavy_________.
The most important leader in Catholic Church was the_________.
The first estate was the_________.
The _______ clergy lived apart from society, in an religious orden, by their own rule.
The first estate was the_________.
The _______ clergy lived apart from society, in an religious orden, by their own rule.
The _________ was the most important title in the _________ estate.
And the least important was_________.
And the least important was_________.
The third estate was the _________________( middle class ) and the _______
which were extremely poor, they lived in the___________.
Activitieswhich were extremely poor, they lived in the___________.
ENLIGHENMENT
5 Look at these webs and answer
The Enlightenment: origins
WHEN: end of XVII C
WHERE: From France and England spreads throughout Europe
WHAT the movement promotes:
It questions all principles which sustained the old regime
HOW: Through thinking: Giving light + solutions
ENLIGHENMENT
WHO: origins: John Locke - criticises Absolutism
- states division of powers
Isaac Newton – “The scientific method”
MAIN IDEAS Absolute faith in reasoning (human intelligence)
Opposed to Classical understanding based in tradition and revelation
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CONSEQUENCE : Ilustrated Despotism (Absolutism ) is developed
1. The Sources (Ideas) Philosophers: Montesquieu, Voltaire, Rousseau
equality in origin + social mobility + value based on each one’s intelligence
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Their religion: Deism: belief in the existence of a God based on the evidence of reason and nature only do not accept predominance one belief condemned religious intolerance
WHERE we can find ideas: Encyclopedia - Diderot D’Alembert
HW: Definition of Encyclopedia.
Copyright © 2007 Juan Carlos Ocaña
Copyright © 2007 Juan Carlos Ocaña
1. What Enlightenment means?
2. What is the main idea?
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776
The vegetable food of the original inhabitants of the Americas, though from their want of industry not very abundant, was not altogether so scanty. It consisted in corn, yams, potatoes, bananas, tomatoes, etc., plants which were then altogether unknown in Europe, and which have never since been very much esteemed in it, or supposed to yield a sustenance equal to what is drawn from the common sorts of grain and pulse, which have been cultivated in this part of the world time out of mind.
The food produced by a field of potatoes is not inferior in quantity to that produced by a field of rice, and much superior to what is produced by a field of wheat. Twelve thousand weight of potatoes from an acre of land is not a greater produce than two thousand weight of wheat. The food or solid nourishment, indeed, which can be drawn from each of those two plants, is not altogether in proportion to their weight, on account of the watery nature of potatoes. Allowing, however, half the weight of this root to go to water, a very large allowance, such an acre of potatoes will still produce six thousand weight of solid nourishment, three times the quantity produced by the acre of wheat. An acre of potatoes is cultivated with less expense than an acre of wheat; the fallow, which generally precedes the sowing of wheat, more than compensating the hoeing and other extraordinary culture which is always given to potatoes. Should this root ever become in any part of Europe, like rice in some rice countries, the common and favorite vegetable food of the people, so as to occupy the same proportion of the lands in tillage which wheat and other sorts of grain for human food do at present, the same quantity of cultivated land would maintain a much greater number of people, and the laborers being generally fed with potatoes, a greater surplus would remain after replacing all the stock and maintaining all the labor employed in cultivation. A greater share of this surplus, too, would belong to the landlord. Population would increase, and rents would rise much beyond what they are at present.
In some parts of Lancashire it is pretended, I have been told, that bread of oatmeal is a heartier food for laboring people than wheaten bread, and I have frequently heard the same doctrine held in Scotland. I am, however, somewhat doubtful of the truth of it. The common people in Scotland, who are fed with oatmeal, are in general neither so strong, nor so handsome as the same rank of people in England who are fed with wheaten bread. They neither work so well, nor look so well; and as there is not the same difference between the people of fashion in the two countries, experience would seem to show that the food of the common people in Scotland is not so suitable to the human constitution as that of their neighbors of the same rank in England. But it seems to be otherwise with potatoes. The chairmen, porters, and coalheavers in London, and those unfortunate women who live by prostitution, the strongest men and the most beautiful women perhaps in the British dominions, are said to be the greater part of them from the lowest rank of people in Ireland, who are generally fed with this root. No food can afford a more decisive proof of its nourishing quality, or of its being peculiarly suitable to the health of the human constitution.
It is difficult to preserve potatoes through the year, and impossible to store them like corn, for two or three years together. The fear of not being able to sell them before they rot discourages their cultivation, and is, perhaps, the chief obstacle to their ever becoming in any great country, like bread, the principal vegetable food of all the different ranks of the people.... The circumstances of the poor through a great part of England cannot surely be so much distressed by any rise in the price of poultry, fish, wild-fowl, or venison, as they must be relieved by the fall in that of potatoes.
