You know what made people rise up against the french king.
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Adam Smith
Scottish philosopher 1723-1790.
He had the idea of Free market economy.
No government should make rules that traders should follow.
Without rules traders would compete with each other, so quality becomes high and prices become low.
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Spreading ideas
Invention of mass media. Posters, flyers and pamphlets. Everyone could read new ideas.
In coffeehouses and salons everyone could discuss new ideas.
In Encyclodédie new ideas could be bundled.
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Charles II King of England
Coffeehouses “have produced very evil and dangerous effects,” and were also a “disturbance of the peace and quiet realm,”. This edict put an end to the sale of coffee, tea and chocolate in coffeehouses and in homes as wel!
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French society 18th century
The french were divided in three groups, called estates.
First estate: Clergy, the church.
Second estate: Nobility, the nobles and the king.
Third estate: The others, farmers, people in the cities even whealty traders.
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Louis XVI
Made France bankrupt.
Waged wars and spend too much on parties.
Needed to raise taxes, so he called the estates-general together for the first time in more than 200 years.
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Estates-General
A meeting of representatives from all three estates.
The first and second estates didn't pat taxes, and had a little power.
The third estate had to pay taxes and had nothing to say...
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Get to work
Read page 33
Do question 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5A on page 43 and 44, in pairs or in a group of three. You can quietly discus with the person next to you
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Homework check
question 1 to 6 on page 34 and 35.
pay attention to each other.
do you have a different aswer? Just ask, sometimes there's more than one correct answer.