Section 3.13 Changing Social Structures. Questions to consider: How did the economic changes of the...

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Section 3.13 Changing Social Structures

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Page 1: Section 3.13 Changing Social Structures. Questions to consider: How did the economic changes of the 16 th century affect each class? Describe the economic.

Section 3.13

Changing Social Structures

Page 2: Section 3.13 Changing Social Structures. Questions to consider: How did the economic changes of the 16 th century affect each class? Describe the economic.

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!!!