VT21-6.2-Worrisome wigs 18th century

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• Middelbare school
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• Leerjaar 2

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Planning for this lesson

Discuss the test

6.2 instruction

6.2 TvG questions

1-3c

Objectives for this lesson

• Understanding two causes of the French revolution.

Discussing the test

questions about a certain questions/answer? I will write it down and take a new look at the answer.

Planning for this lesson

6.2 instruction

6.2 TvG questions

1-3c

Absolutism

Absolutism/ absolute power

• Form of government
• The monarch is able to decide everything: his/her power is absolute.

Three French kings

Louis XIV

-Build Versailles

-Very powerful

Louis XV

-Spends lot of money

-Loses sympathy

Louis XVI

-Can't fix financial problems.

-Hated by many French

Tijdvak 7

ca. 1700-1800

40.000 died in just a few years by this guillotine machine

(Even the king and queen of France)

Wars for example in America

Luxurious life at Versailles

Nobility and clergy didn't pay taxes

Converted= 282.000.000 euro's debt

Cause 1 of the French Revolution

Empty treasury and national debt

• Expensive wars
• Luxurious life at Versailles
• Rich people don't pay taxes
• Louis XVI didn't try to fix the problems

Cause 2 of the French Revolution

Inequality

Planning for this lesson

6.2 TvG questions

4a-6b