MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the clergy
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the middle classes
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the urban workers
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the peasants
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Detailed explanation-1: -The third estate included middle classes, the artisans and the peasants. The Clergy was the largest landowner. The Nobles had monopoly on all the government posts. However, the Clergy and Nobles did not pay any taxes.
Detailed explanation-2: -The First Estate was the clergy, who were people, including priests, who ran both the Catholic church and some aspects of the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -The members of the first two estates, that is, the clergy and the nobility, enjoyed certain privileges by birth. The most important of these was exemption from paying taxes to the state.
Detailed explanation-4: -Tithe was a tax to religious contribution and was collected by church.
Detailed explanation-5: -The clergy were the religious people of the Middle Ages. Following the pope, in order of rank, there were bishops, priests, monks and nuns. In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the pope, as head of the church, had much influence over the king and total control of the clergy.