Question

What do understand by middle class ? How did it emerge in Europe? 

(OR) 

‘The eighteenth century witnessed the emergence of new social groups collectively termed the middle class’ – Explain about the emergence of middle class in Europe.

Answer 1

• Within the Third Estate, a group of people had access to education and new ideas and became prosperous. 
• They earned their wealth through expanding means of overseas trade and from the manufacture of goods such as woollen and silk textiles. 
• This new social group was collectively termed as middle class.