This group is made up of members of the French Royal Family and Aristrocrats.
What is The First Estate?
100
These men and women met to discuss social, scientific and economic issues of the day.
Who are the Philosophes?
100
Peasants were not allowed to protect their crops from predators because they were hunted for sport by this group.
Who are the Aristrocrats?
100
The condition which a Bourgeoisie owns all of the means and method of production and the exclusive right to sell the product for a certain industry.
What is a monopoly?
100
Louis XVI felt this when he took the throne.
What is unprepared?
200
This estate was made up of members of the Church and clergy.
What is the Second Estate?
200
The meeting places where discussion regarding social, scientific, and economic issues took place.
What is a salon?
200
Although French peasants were very poor, the often owned this.
What is a small farm?
200
These methods of collecting funds made it difficult for the bourgeoisie to earn profit.
What are tariffs and tolls.
200
These languages were more common in 18th Century France than French.
What is German and Breton?
300
This group consists of 97% of the population of France.
What is the Third Estate?
300
He was the most famous of the Enlightenment thinker.
Who is Voltaire?
300
Peasants were not very efficient farmers which contributed to the food shortage in France due to what farming practices.
What is medieval?
300
A lack of this - the roads, canals and other means of communication and travel within a community also restricted the success of the bourgeoisie.
What is infrastructure?
300
Many laws in 18th Century France were based an inherited from this ancient group.
What is the Roman Empire?
400
This is the vow which the Thrid Estate took to continue to meet until a new constitution has been created.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
400
John Locke created this brand new field of study which declared knowledge could only be accumulated through experience.
What is empricism?
400
Peasants level of education was at this level.
What is illiterate.
400
These special groups under the right of the King held special privledges to control the amount of goods which could be produced and their prices.
What are guilds?
400
This scandal involving Marie's expensive tastes put France's government into crisis and demonstrated the incompetence and decadence of the French monarchy.
What is the Affair of the Diamond Necklace?
500
This document was created by the new name of the Third Estate which outlined the new rights of the French people.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
500
This philosophe believed in the necessity of a social contract - an agreement for people living in society to accept for society to function.
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
500
This economic phenomenon which costs of goods and services rose sharply.
What is inflation?
500
The Bourgeoisie went by this name - a term still in use today.
What is the middle class?
500
In another display of ignorace, Marie fired this person, the controller general of France.