Answer» - Bastille, medieval fortress on the east side of Paris that became, in the 17th and 18th centuries, a FRENCH state prison and a place of detention for important persons charged with various offenses.
- In France before 1789 a tax LEVIED on the common people by the king or an overlord is known as the taille.
- A forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system is known as a REVOLUTION.
- A body of fundamental principles or established precedents ACCORDING to which a state or other organization is ACKNOWLEDGED to be governed is known as constitution.
- Subsistence crisis can be defined as an extreme situation where the basic means of livelihood are endangered. In France, due to the rapid expansion of the population from 23 million in 1715 to 28 million in 1789, a subsistence crisis occurred. A subsistence crisis is a crisis caused by economic factors (generally high food prices), which in turn may be caused by either natural or man-made factors,which threatens the food supplies and the survival prospects of large numbers of people (it is considered famine if it is extremely severe and large numbers of lives are lost). A subsistence crisis can be considered genuine if it is visible in demographic data.
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