I appreciate and understand another culture
Throughout global history 2, we have learned about many cultures all around the world in many different time periods. One period and culture I have a greater understanding of is late 1700's France. We focused on The French revolution along with many others to understand the steps of a revolution and also the different cultures and social classes during the revolution time period of that country. Learning about the French Revolution really helped me appreciate the French culture and the different social classes. In France during this time period they had three estates. The first two estates were members of the clergy and nobility, the third estate contained the majority of the population who paid all of the taxes even though they were the most poor class. During this unit we participated in a class project which divided up the class to explain each of their estates and the views on France at that time. When researching the higher classes it allowed me to understand what an impact the king and queen had on the public's lives and how unfair the system was. I decided to include the magazine we made because this magazine really helped me to understand the perspective the first and second estate had on the monarchy. We incorporated many elements of the culture and fashion and addition the perspective of the people on the system which France followed pre-revolution. When putting ourselves into the shoes of the French, it allowed for us to understand the social classes which we had not previously been able to relate to.