Characteristics of Modern Society
The Non-Privileged Estates
Commercial burgeoisie
Bourgeoisie became nobles
Peasantry
The landowners
How they could survive
Outcasts
In the Basque Country
The Privileged Estates
The privileges were:
The Nobility
Their original function
Defend society
Levels of Nobles
Dukes, Marquises, and Counts
Knights
The Noblemen
Squires
During the periods of crisis in the 17th century
Nobles in The Basque Country
The Clergy
The high clergy
The low clergy
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