WESTERN CIVILIZATION II Unit I Assessment ESSAY QUESTIONS

Running Head : WESTERN CIVILIZATION

Western Civilization

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Western Civilization (1 ) It has always been the power struggle that led people to revolt Developments in agriculture were not enough to feed the whole French nation , especially in the cities , because the poor has always sufferred Despite the advancement in agriculture and the use of modern agricultural techniques and expected ' increase in food supply , the prices of the food was still going up . Why ? Because it was only "more food - rather than a fairer distribution (Brown , 2003 , p

. 24 ) which means the peasants has still to push their luck to survive in the cruel world . Thus , peasant unrest in 1789 eventually came into view with so much oppression of the poor

To end constant riots and demonstrations , the politics during that time believed that the poor can be set aside disallowing them to cast their votes and making them cultivate food produce for the wealthy . Even the constitution that time discriminates poor by putting so much emphasis on individual private property ownership "at the expense of any right of the poor to subsistence (Brown , 2003 ,

. 24

The unrest in 1789 was an incident where agriculture played a major role . Without farmers ' efforts to provide food in the urban areas , or if the crop these farmers tilled produce a bad harvest , the effects were simply devastating : skyrocketing food prices , unemployment , and chaos (2 ) There was so much developments in the eighteenth century Europe leading to acquisitions of various...