What accounts for the conservatism of the ancien régime?
What will be an ideal response?
The ideal answer should include:
a. The difficulties of life during the ancien régime led many Europeans to view any change as risky.
b. Peasants had little incentive to increase their agricultural yield because any surplus would be siphoned off by tax and rent collectors.
c. The difficulties in travel limited Europeans’ contact with the world beyond their village.
d. The widespread acceptance of inequality helped to keep the elite in power.
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