The Old Regime and the Enlightenment

Which political system is characteristic of the Ancien Regime?

• Democratic Republic

• Republic

• Absolute monarchy

• Parliamentary monarchy

Absolute monarchs ruled on basis of

• popular sovereingnity

• divine right

• elective

• the power of the Parliament

What type of society did the Ancien Regime have?

• Class-based

• Egalitarian

• Communism

• Estate-based

What philosophical movement criticised the Ancien Regime?

• Humanism

• Enlightenment

• Empiricism

• Rationalism

The main characteristics of the Enlightenment are….

• Absolutism, faith in God, intolerance, and statements.

• Liberalism, reason, progress, tolerance, and fraternity.

• Democracy, work on factories, republics and bitcoins.

The spreading of the new ideas of the Enlightenment was boosted by the:

• Invention of the printer machine
• Publication of the Encyclopedie
• Increase of wealth sources
• King's willingness

Select the main characteristics of the Bill of Rights (multiple option)

• Limited the monarch´s power

• Parliament was divided into two chambers (house of lords and house of commons)

• Women suffrage

• Create a Republic

Royal manufacturers... (multiple option)

• Produced luxury goods

• Were located in large workshops

• Were the origin of the first factories

• Were made by peasants in their own home and sold them to the Royal family

The House of Commons...

• is the upper chamber

• represent the clergy and the rest of the population

• both are correct

• is the lower chamber and represents the bourgeoisie

Agriculture in the Old Regime... (multiple option)

• was characterised by the subsistence farming

• land cannot be separated

• low productivity and scarce technological improvements

• was the basis of the ecomomy