HIST111 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Sumptuary Law, Szlachta, Ob River
31 Mar 2016
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The term ancient regime refers to the long-term socioeconomic changes in the 18th century. a pattern of the changes occurring in the middle ages pre-revolutionary way of doing things. What was society like in the ancien regime? people: politically conservative with varying strengths of monarchs throughout. Europe economically: conservative and anti change, proto-capitalistic, and proto- industrial (new scales of creating money) socially based on 3 estates system. Urban labour force and all the rural peasantry urban labour forces refer to tanners and guilds of tanners: master . >journeyman >apprentice guilds - established associations based on one"s craft, often merchants reduces competition by guaranteeing a controlled market includes entire process of creating a product from conceptualization to manufacturing to selling. But: involved social politics thus preventing people guild dislikes from making money different from a union. The conservative forces and forces for change played an important role in the ancien regime"s alteration.
