The most prominent cause of social stress in France in the eighteenth century is overpopulation with a startling 20 million people living within its borders. Over the next century there would have been an increase of population up to about 8 to 10 million people. In a population that big there was bound to be some social strife. Also with a large population the economy would begin to struggle under its burden. Thus capitalism was introduced into everyday life for the French people as a way to increase income. It is these two factors that initially began the French revolution. The war between the nobility and the peasants was based on money and human rights. The peasants believed they had a right to live with all the comforts that the nobles did. The nobility believed that they were better then everyone below there station. So to control this egotistical way of thinking the national assembly was created to insure all men¡¦s human rights.
Socialism (a political theory or system in......
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