Answer:
France under the Ancien Régime (before the French Revolution) divided society into three estates: the First Estate (clergy); the Second Estate (nobility); and the Third Estate (commoners). The king was considered part of no estate.
. International: struggle for hegemony and Empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state
2. Political conflict: conflict between the Monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.
3. The Enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in Montequieu’s Spirit of the Laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in Rousseau’s Social Contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the Literary Underground of “Grub Street;” the broadening influence of public opinion.
4. Social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie
5. Ineffective ruler: Louis XVI
6. Economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.
Answer:
B: Both empires sought to project power as a mean of expanding their territories.
Explanation:
We can eliminate A as the passage mentions nothing about rebellion.
B is correct, by elimination of other options and I got it right on edge.
We can eliminate C as it does not mention a comparison between the two nations, thus we can not decide who had more political power.
D is wrong because the passage mentions the Songhay extracting wealth, but option D places wealth extraction on the Mughals.
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I'm guessing africa is the the continent
Canyons are formed by erosion