Answer: Royal court spent too much. France was too indepted. France supported American independence against the British (also expensive) and lost its colony New France (Treaty of Paris, 1763). Immediately before the revolution poverty was extreme because of the climate (harsh winter).
Explanation: There were many external factors that worsened condition of common people in France (the Third state).
Germany is the only valid option because Portugal and Spain were the first countries to expand and we know Great Britain had control over the thirteen colonies
