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... Indirect Rule (warrant chiefs)
France
Old Regime Society
Human chain, Hierarchial
3-estates-clergy (1%), nobility (2%), everyone else (97%)
Person was thought of as a subject not a citizen with rights, privilges were virtue of membership in one or more corporate bodies
Social Class: nobility-isolated (Bourgeoise), Monarchy, Lower classes (Proletariat)
Economy: Rural agriculture, peasent produced own needs, with increased with accumulation of goods
Government: Absolute monarchy, bureaucratic administration, system of taxation
Religion: Catholicism
Revolution: “Enlightment brought out by Kant-critic of social, political, and religious institutions; Belief was in progress, experimental method of science, free reasoning-best guide for conduct of life
“Social Contract”-wrote by Rousseau-which believed in freedoms and human rights
Marx-communism was never brought into effect but the ideology of certain aspects lived on; the industrial revolution brought technology and change to Europe-development of steam engine, cotton textile industry
Approximate Word count = 742
Approximate Pages = 3
(250 words per page double spaced)
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