... be. Again it was what came out of the crisis combined with other circumstances rather than the crisis itself that led to the revolutionary act; although the factor of the bad economic situation gained importance later on in the revolution when it helped to mobilize the nation. For Ireland there is to be said that Ireland also had economic problems which ... social 'reform', 'revolution', as slavery was still not abolished every where and the society was still built on an hierarchical structure (although based now on wealth and the possession of land and not on the right of birth), it wa...

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... the revolution took place, this was not a problem since everyone would be taxed the same. The National Assembly, in order to help pay for the nation's debt, seized the church's land and sold it to the public. This would not have happened of the church still had its unequal, special privileges. The people could finally afford to pay for food and ... economy was allowed to go sour. It had not returned to its old system of unbalanced taxation, but was still deficient. This was a fluctuation in the economy from good to bad. France's rulers were incapable of efficiently handling financial si...

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