New social movements

Children in factories.

We have done a investigation about the conditions of the worker children in factories. We have done an interview to a girl called Sophie.


INTERVIEW
TESTIMONY

Newspaper advertisement

We have created a newspaper advertisement for railway and steamship transport in the mid-1800s.

Italian and German Unification

TIME- LINES

As enlightened newspaper's reporter, we have been asked to investigate the scientific advances during de 17th and 18th century.

These are our works:
Mª José:

Mª Ángeles: http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/723493/The-scientific-revolution/
Flora http://prezi.com/z1jgtqihdufo/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy&rc=ex0share 
Helena  http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/722273/INVENTIONS-IN-THE-17th-AND-18th-CENTURY/

Montesquieu

Welcome again guys!

We have investigated Montesquieu. He's a French philosopher very important for the Enlightenment.

We have done an interview with him:

http://floral2001.edu.glogster.com/montesquieu

But, our superiors aren't happy with us. We have contributed to spread Enlightenment's ideas, endangering the alliance with the French absolute monarchy, and the Empire doesn't want us to go back home We are considered a traitor in permanent exile on Earth.

The triangular slave trade

Are you curious?

We have investigated about the triangular slave trade. 

Check our video ;)

The Ancien Regime

Hello earthling! We have started to study the ancien regime.

And we have done a mind map:

http://prezi.com/_i6smph0kqdm/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

The map talks about the ancien regime.

It was the principal social, economic and political system from the 15th century to 18th century.

Society

There was an important inequality that affected to some groups of the society, specially, the poor ones.

Society under the Ancien Régime was divided into two groups: the privileged and the unprivileged. The privileged ones were less than a 5% of the population. The rest of population were unprivileged.

Feudal society were the privileged. They were the nobility and the clergy.

-       The nobility owned most of the land and the public positions. They didn’t pay taxes but received them from the peasants.

-       The clergy had large areas of land to manage and collected tithes.

The unprivileged was made up of the bourgeoisie, the urban working class and the farmers or peasants.

-       The bourgeoisie were craftsmen, merchants and bankers. They had gained in wealth during the 18th century but not political influence.

-       The urban working class were made up of poorer craftsmen, servants, soldiers and workers.

-       Farmers or peasants were the largest group of the population.

The political system was the absolute monarchy. It is a monarchy that is not limited or restrained by laws or a constitution. The monarch has absolute power by divine right and it controls the 3 branches of the state (executive, judicial, legislative).

In the same way. It were some institutions that limited the monarch's power. As the parlament in England, the estates general in France and 'las cortes' of Spain.

But, it was a change. The people cares to the monarch. This change was called Enlightenment despotism. So the monarch did improves in the education, the culture, the health and the economy of his people inspired by the Enlightenment.

Demography:

There was a population growth in the 18th century. The population in Europe grew from 100 million to 200 million people.

This growth was possible because of a period of peace that made greater agricultural production and also helped to have fewer epidemics, such us Black Death.

This resulted in a lower death rate and an increase in the birth rate.

This population growth caused some things:

-       It increased the demand of agricultural products because there were more people.

-       This also caused an increase in the agricultural production.

-       Finally, all this series of events helped to stimulate the economy.

Economy:

The agriculture was the most important economic activity.

It was mainly subsistence farming, based on a three-field crop rotation system, this was that farmland is divided into three parts, two of these are cultivated and the third was left fallow. This produced just enough food.

Subsistence crisis: the situation for rural families became very difficult. The prices, hunger and misery increased.

The demand for goods and services increased and resulted in intense economic growth.

The movement of products was made possible the transport and comunication networks.

Europe in the 18th century: Introduction

Europe in the 18th century wasn't like the Europe in the 21st century. Are you curious? 

Look the map!

There was a political system called absolutism in which the monarch has all the power and it comes from God. The best example is the king of France, Luis XV. In this century there were 4 empires: The Ottoman Empire, the Austria- Hungary Empire, the Rusian Empire and the Germany Empire.

There were also enlightened monarchies as in Spain (Charles III), in Prusia, Rusia, Austria-Hungary, Sweden and Denmark.

But, there were monarchies with limited power too, as in England.
Well, fourtunately we live in a democracy. but, in Europe some countries now don't exist and some of them are fragmented.

Now Prusia doesn't exist, Austria-Hungary was fragmented into Austria, Eslovaquia, Hungary...
The Balkans area was also fragmented into Greece, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia...
Italy and Germany were fragmented in the 18th century.