The Old Regime

1. Clergy
   1. Priviledge

      Annotations:

      • Enjoyed major advanteges over communers
      1. Nobility
2. Communers
   1. Lack of movility

      Annotations:

      • Comunners normally do not move up

1. Trade
   1. International trade
      1. Triangular trade

         Annotations:

         • It was the firs International trade Between: Africa, America and Europe It was considered to be the greatest tragedy in history of humanity, with more than 12 million deaths
      2. Guilds

         Annotations:

         • Controlled moust artisanal activities Guilds: asociations of artisans that worked in the same trade
         1. domestic system

            Annotations:

            • Was a new system of production in textiles. Royal factories belonged to the monarchy
2. Agriculture

   Annotations:

   • They used very basic tools of agriculture. Crops depended of the climate and they were a lot of flood and droughts
3. Farming

   Annotations:

   • Moust of the land was of the clergy, due to these a lot of land could not be used.

1. Monarchy

   Annotations:

   • Was the moust used system of goverment in the 18th century, including Fance, Spain etc.
   1. The king adquires all the power
   2. Absolutism
2. Republic

   Annotations:

   • In 1648 the independence of 7 provinces in the northen Neatherlands. This was the Dutch Republic also known as the Republic of the United provinces
   1. Had representatives
      1. Legislative power
         1. Parliament
            1. Voters
      2. Executive power
         1. King
      3. Judicial power
         1. Judges and tribunals
3. Parlamentary

   Annotations:

   • England is an example of these type of goverment
   1. Legislative power
      1. King+Ministers
   2. Executive power
      1. Parlament
   3. Judicial power
      1. Independent

Annotations:

• Enlightment was a high influenciall intelectual movement that spread across Europe and America.Some of the moust important thinkers are: Montesquieu Voltaire Rosseau

1. Ilustration
   1. Reason
      1. Education
      2. Science
      3. Critic
         1. Society

            Annotations:

            • Mérito and capacity
         2. Religion
            1. Tolerance
         3. Politics
            1. Citicens with rights
   2. Liberty
2. Spain
   1. KIngs
      1. Felipe V
      2. Carlos III
         1. Centralization of administration
            1. Decretos de nueva planta

1. Continental equilibrium
   1. War of Succesion
      1. Consecuences
         1. Spain
            1. Loose Europeans possesion
         2. England
            1. Control over seas
         3. Europe
            1. Equilibrium
               1. Austria
               2. Prusia
               3. Rusia
               4. France
   2. 7 Year War

      Annotations:

      • 1756-1763 Great Britan Vs France Control over the trade
      1. Consecuences

         Annotations:

         • Peace of Paris Fall of France, and Great Britain converts into the first world power.