Explain how the Hundred Years' War caused the political systems in England and France to develop differently.

Several political events also occurred in each England and France that are still visible in their political systems, each suffered through popular revolts but had opposite effects. In France the revolt (called the Jacquerie) was put down ruthlessly ad mercilessly. Even today France has a strong Central Government with a strong head of Government that runs from the top, down. In England, the peasant's revolt, while it was not a complete success, reaffirmed that the power of the monarchy derived from the people, this is one reason why parliament grew in estates general did not. Lastly, England, lost all her possessions in the continental Europe except for the area around calais. While England's holdings in France had been decreasing fro some time this was a big blow as the Plantagenet's. Historical family holdings around Gascony were lost.