1) Mob - a large crowd of rioting people.
Bastille - the royal fortress prison in Paris.
Constitution - the laws for the running of a country.
Feudal documents - a lord's papers showing who owes him what.
2) The Paris mob stormed the Bastille because they were hungry due to poor harvests and saw the Bastille as a symbol of the King’s oppressive rule. They wanted to destroy it as an act of rebellion against the monarchy and its government.
3) When the author of Source B said, “The whole country is in the greatest agitation...”, he meant that France was experiencing widespread unrest and chaos. Peasants across the country were revolting, burning chateaux, plundering property, and destroying feudal documents, indicating a nationwide breakdown of order and authority.
4) The peasants burned the feudal documents because these papers recorded their obligations and debts to their lords. Destroying them was an act of defiance against the feudal system, aiming to erase the legal basis of their servitude and claim freedom from their lords’ control.
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