CAS HI 101 Chapter 15: Chapter_15_Outline
1 Dec 2016
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Regime: the term old regime applies specifically to the system of government known as political absolutism with the growing bureaucracies and aristocratically led armies, economically, scarcity of food, the predominance of agriculture, slow travel, a low level of iron production, comparatively unsophisticated financial institutions, and, in some cases, competitive overseas empires characterized the old regime, men and women of this time did not see themselves as individuals, but rather as members of distinct corporate bodies that possessed certain privileges or rights as a group. Few people other than those involved in finance and government considered change or innovation desirable in europe during the eighteenth century: nobles demanded the restoration of legal privileges that they believed were being swept away by the growing monarchical bureaucracies, peasants called for the restoration of their customary rights through petitions and revolts that allowed them to access particular lands, courts, or grievance procedures, economic traditions.
