Tuesday, 3 February 2015

Harvests | Causes of the French Revolution

Hello Everyone!

This blog is about causes of the French revolution... Why did this happen? On this blog, I will be exploring the reasons why.

Bad Harvest

On this post we are going to be looking at the first reason- at this time there were a number of bad harvest which affected the whole economy and left people feeling not as good as they used to!

Because of the harvests, the costs of living rose by a whopping 45%! This got so bad that people were spending 75% of their wages on bread. Imagine earning £100 per week, and spending £75 of that on bread so you could keep your belly full. Here are the dates of how it all happened:

1787 - poor harvest, silk harvest failed
1788 - terrible harvest!
1789 - poor harvest, including wine (sorry Mum and Dad!) 
This was all because of bad weather :(

Hungry people are more likely to rebel (everyone gets a little hangry), and the peasants did not have enough money to support their family!




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