Not every one of the civilizations of your planet have known oak bedside chests. Cavemen, nomads, and Eskimos acquired along incredibly effectively without the need of them. But as quickly as people settled into households of much more than subsistence stage, they designed this useful and now indispensable piece of furniture. Give thought to it. [...]

Following the heavy losses of the French and Indian War, as well as France’s involvement in the American Revolution, the country found itself in a massive financial crisis. Debt, inflation, a lack of food, King Louis XVI’s lavish spending practices and an archaic taxation system. The First Estate of the Clergy and the Second Estate of the Nobility was not required to pay taxes, leaving the commoners in the Third Estate with the duty of filling the national coffers.