UNIT 1. THE ANCIEN REGIME
UNIT 1. THE ANCIEN REGIME CARICATURE DEPICTING THE SOCIETY OF THE ANCIEN REGIME The image perfectly represents how the society at the end of the 18th, in which the Third State (humble classes of society) sustained the Second and Third States (Aristocracy and the Church mainly). ACTIVITY 1. The SOCIAL PYRAMID of the Ancien Regime a) Describe the characteristics of the state society, specifying what aspect determined its division and analyzing each group. b) Reasons why it was a static and unequal society ACTIVITY 2 . The ABSOLUTE MONARCHY during the Ancien Regime Below is the image of the "Sun King". Taking into account the ABSOLUTISM aspects we have studied in class, it answers the following questions: a) What KING is this? b) What PHRASE is attributed to this monarch who also sums up in herself the spirit of ABSOLUTISM during the Ancien Regime? c) Explains in detail what are the CHARACTERISTICS of t...