6. Absolutism and the structure of the Ancien regime: When was the Ancien regime first used?
1790
1693
1765
1652
7. when did they produce a male heir?
1781
1786
1778
1756
8. What % of the third estate lived in the countryside?
2/3rd
80%
50%
76%
9. what did the peasantry have to pay?
only taxes
rents; taxes; the taille; gabelle; tithe to the church
conscription; taxes; gabelle; free labour
10. What did the church have control over?
education; hospitals; poor relief
education; all of frenchland; taxes
taxes; towns; countryside
Everything from the other 3 answers
11. which of the following were the main problems of the government?
the king's decisions and attempts to creat one system; splitting the country into 36 generalites; the three estates
thw wide variation in laws and customs across france; ministers and court factions working against each other; no single representative body; royal legislation to be ratidied by 1 of 13 regional parlements.
the overall direction of government policy; laws; ministers; political clubs
12. What % of the population was the second estate/nobility:
less than 1%
2.3%
1/4%
1.2%
13. what were the 3rd estate dependant on?
government issues
price of bread
their children
monarchy
14. when did Louis succeed his father
1609
1798
1774
1756
15. when did he marry Marie-Antoinette?
1769
1770
1775
1782
16. what were the key weaknesses of absolutism and the structure of the Ancien Regime?
problems of government and taxation; couldn't be reformed; tensions in society grew
taxation; church wanting more money; the government being in control
the king; the moarchy; paris government
17. how many generalites/administrative areas was France split into?
45
15
36
3
18. what were the nobility exempt from?
annual grant; paying towards church income
newer taxes linked to income, avoided paying every tax just like the 1st estate
heaviest tax, the tailles (land tax); the corvees royales (labour service on the roads); military conscription
paying rents and taxes; paying the gabelle (salt tax);
19. when did the royal couple have their first child?