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Section 3.13
Changing Social Structures
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Questions to consider:
• How did the economic changes of the 16th century affect each class? Describe the economic classes emerging in Europe in the early modern centuries.
• What accounted for the new demand for education?
• Why did the economic changes of these years affect the rural classes of eastern Europe and of western Europe differently? With what consequences?
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How did the Commercial Revolution affect social groups?
Social Structure = the composition, functions, and interrelationships of social classes. Let’s start at the top:
• Landed Aristocrats– Some developed
refined tastes, education
– Sought govt. positions, military appointments
–Nobles of the sword (older nobles) looked down on the nobles of the robe (nouveau riches)
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• Middle Classes (Bourgeoisie)– Group between aristocracy and
poor– Began to buy lands (dress and act
noble)– Composed of urban elites (ruled
cities), clergy (educated), some guild masters, merchants, shopkeepers
– Lower middle class of Yeomen farmers (freeholders)• Owned their land
How did the Commercial Revolution affect social groups?
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• Working Class– Peasantry & Urban Poor
• Largely illiterate, unskilled, wage laborers
• Menial jobs• The vast majority of the
population
How did the Commercial Revolution affect social groups?
Bruegel’s A Peasant Wedding
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What impact did the Commercial Revolution have on education?
• Great demand for education (1580-1640)
• Reformation required educated clergy• Commercial growth created need for
literate workers, lawyers• Governments begin to grant
endowments to lower classes– Oxford- ½ of student body were
plebeian (member of lower classes)
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Who benefited from the Commercial Revolution?• Western Europe
– Bourgeoisie
– Some Peasants (few)
• were getting freer
• some becoming small proprietors
• Eastern Europe
– Upper class
– Junkers (lords of Northeast Germany)
• Prospered from increased demand for grain
• Gained greater control over their peasants (hereditary subjects)
• Increase in robot (corvee in France)
– 3-4 days required labor
• This is decisive in the history of Europe!!!