A. American independence and democracy
Answer: The correct answer is : Individuals from the third state were not happy because 95% of them were peasants and farmers and the other two states did not take them into account and treated them badly. Taxes were paid by the third state, all the burden fell on them, while members of the other two states did not pay taxes and had feudal privileges. The peasants stormed the Bastille and dismantled it and this was the first example of popular protest in the French Revolution.
Unlike European feudalism, Japanese feudalism had no true pyramid form, with a hierarchy of ‘inferior’ nobles being presided over by the monarch. This was mainly due to two facts: Firstly, Japanese authority was as centralized as the case was in the European nation states. Even though the majority of local aristocrats paid the emperor lip-service, Japan’s rugged terrain made it hard for the emperor to have full control of the local aristocracy, making local aristocrats in Japan much more powerful than their European counterparts.
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