Scientific Revolution:The Social Causes

The three estates were the First estate (clergy), second estate (The nobility) and finally the third estate (middle class and peasants). The clergy and the nobility only occupied a small part of France but the peasants occupied maybe more than 95% of France. The third estate even though it is bigger, was getting a bad treatment. The voting system was one vote per estate. When ever something favored the Clergy or nobility and not the middle class, the clergy always doubled team the middle class.Enlightment thinkers influenced the french Revolution by makinng its force stronger with words. The event that tiggered the French Revolution was when the middle class took over a Bastille which is a prison and ammunitions hideout. Also the peasants also in the country went and killed the people that lived in the manors.