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 | | In response to the progress and effects of the industrial revolution, coupled with the active economic involvement of a bourgeois class of merchants, the landed aristocracy consolidated their holdings, moving the peasants from the countryside into urban centers, poor houses, and worse, while developing more advanced methods of agriculture. |
 | | Their basic needs were filled by the policies of the ruling class, and in return, the ruling class culled widespread support for archaic monarchical impulses. |
 | | The landed aristocracy, not concerned with advanced commercial agriculture, tied the peasant to his land through a continued system of serfdom, exercised its control through nationalist banter and the accumulation of grains for sale at national markets. |
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