The Old Regime

What are the three states of the Old Regime?

• Nobility, Clergy, and burgoisie.

• Nobility, Clergy, and common people.

• Nobility, Clergy, and peasantry.

• Nobility, Clergy, and lower class.

The social dinstictions and hierarchy of the Old Regime was established by...

• Money and property

• Religion

• Birth

True or false. "All the wealth was in hands of the privileged states, and everyone in the third state was poor"

• True

• False, there was wealthy people in the third state.

• False, wealth was evenly distributed among all states.

How was the birth and death rates in the old regime?

• Birth rates were high, but death rates were low in the old regime.
• Both birth and death rates were high

• Both birth and death rates were low

• Birth rates were low, but death rates were high

What was the main activity in the old regime?

• Agriculture

• Military conquests
• Trade and commerce
• Industrial manufacturing

The goverment system of the old regime, when the sovereign had all the power by the will of god, is called...

• Democratic monarchy

• Feudal monarchy

• oligarchy
• absolutism

The enlightment was a line of thought that defended...

• collective ownership and communal decision-making

• superstition and blind faith over logic
• absolute monarchy and divine right
• individual rights and reason over superstition and traditions

The theory of the separation of power was proposed by...

• Montesquieu
• Bossuet

• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau