4º ESO BILINGUAL: DIAGRAM OF UNIT 3

UNIT 3
THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ANCIENT REGIME

I.- THE ANCIEN REGIME (Study with the PPS)

• What is the Ancien Régime?

• Elements of the Ancien Régime:
• Low growth of the population
• Agrarian based economy
• Craft industry
• Triangular Trade (You have a great map on page 61, appart from the explanations of the PPS)
• Economic systems: commercial capitalism and mercantilism
• The estates of the realm
• Political system: types of monarchy (authoritarian, absolute, parliamentary)
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II.- THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE ANCIEN REGIME (Study with the book)

• The 18th century: the Early Modern and Modern Ages
• The Enlightenment: a change in thinking
• Enlightenment criticism and proposals
• The Enlightenment in Spain
• Enlightenment politics in Europe, America and Spain
• Enlightened despotism: rise and fall
• The United States: an Enlightenment victory (Study the copy and only the last paragraph of page 57 about the United States Constitution)
• Changes in Spain
• A change of dinasty: the rise of the Bourbons
• Centralisation under the Bourbons
• Economic changes in Spain
• Society in the 18th century in Spain
• Art during the Enlightenment: Rococo and Neoclassicism  (Study with the PPS)