Monday, September 22, 2008

The French Revolution

1)a.the nobility- they had complete control over the peasants. They were allowed to tax them as much as they want.
b. The clergy- they had as much power over taxes as the nobles and the lives of the peasants.
c. The peasants- The had control of nothing, they were always taxed unfairly

2)A peasant might have grumbled about how his life is so terrible and how everything is not fair to him because hes not a royal.

3)The cartoonist is making the point that the peasant was the work horse of the nobles and feudal lords and how he was the ones carrying all the burden of the people above him.

4)They describe it as being taxed for everything and having to pay taxes to feudal lords and then had to pay the king's tax

5)Yes it does because it shows how the life of a peasant had very hard times while the nobles get lots of money that were not able to be taxed because of their ranks.

6)We the United States because now we do believe that and we fight for other people to protect that right, but we would not have agreed with these statements during the birth of our democracy.

7)I think the only reason it was banned because the leaders would not want their subjects to listen to a phrase that will change their whole way of thinking and cause a revolt against the lords. The people who most likely banned this was the people with the higher ranks.

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