They wove baskets/ put dirt and a crop seed in it and placed it on the lake. When it was time to harvest the lake they pulled it towards the land and collected the crop.
1930s The Great Depression
Estates General was the common estate of three estates - First estate (clergy), Second estate (nobility) and Third estate ( commoners). Before the Estates General the three estates were rigidly divided and their interests were antagonistic to each other. The absolute monarchy and economic crises brought them under one common platform i.e Estates General. Here they began to shun the separate estates and fought for a common cause. Estates General paved the way for national assembly and ultimately united France under one national identity.