Question

After the French Revolution in many parts of the world including Europe and Asia, new ideas about individual rights and who controlled social power began to be discussed. Not everyone in Europe however wanted a complete transformation of society which groups in Europe had varied responses to social change? List the values these groups reflected

Answer 1

Developments in technology and organization reshaped social structure. A recognizable peasantry continued to exist in western Europe, but it increasingly had to adapt to new methods. In many areas (most notably, the Netherlands and Denmark) a cooperative movement spread to allow peasants to market dairy goods and other specialties to the growing urban areas without abandoning individual landownership. Many peasants began to achieve new levels of education and to adopt innovations such as new crops, better seeds, and fertilizers; they also began to innovate politically, learning to press governments to protect their agricultural interests.