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AP Euro: 20 18th c. Social History
The Changing Life of the People, 18th century
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10th Grade
11/30/2011

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Why did people marry at older ages in Europe? (2)
Definition
1) Need to be able to support themselves economically, i.e.- inherit land or start a business
2) Parental/community controls, permission of local lord/priest/aristocrat needed
Term
What are the core aspects of Methodism?
Definition
Emotional, involved religion
Rejection of predestination
Term
What conflicts did the Jesuits face in the 18th c.?
Definition
Pressure from France and Spain to dissolve Jesuits because of their growing political influence
Term
What was the German Protestant Revival also known as? What are its three key components?
Definition
German Pietism
1) Warm, emotional religion ("the heart must burn")
2) Emphasis on all classes ("priesthood of all believers")
3) Moral activism
Term
What new commercial techniques led to the 18th c. consumer revolution? (3)
Definition
1) Increased marketing
2) Diversification
3) Increased turnover (i.e.- people buy things more often, based on the seasons, etc.)
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Did elites share popular enthusiasm for communal 18th c. leisure activities? Why or why not?
Definition
Only until the Enlightenment-- the Enlightenment's critical worldview challenges morals
Term
What led to a greater variety in diet in the 18th c.?
Definition
Agr. Rev. and market gardening, esp in Netherlands + England
Term
What was the direct cause of the Protestant Revival?
Definition
The unsatisfied needs of the people
Term
What English historian suggested emotional prudence and called child death "unnatural but strictly probable?"
Definition
Edward Gibbon
Term
What are biological benefits of breastfeeding? (2)
Definition
1) decreases likelihood of pregnancy
2) Immunity producing substances
Term
In the 18th c., who was more successful in education, France or the Habsburgs?
Definition
The Habsburgs
Term
Who was the English aristocrat who discovered Muslims in Western Asia practicing smallpox inoculation?
Definition
Lady Mary Montague
Term
Who discovered the cowpox vaccine for smallpox?
Definition
Edward Jenner
Term
Catholic zeal in the 2nd half of the 18th c. in France led to nobles' _____.
Definition
opposition and austere criticism of the monarchy (possible cause of French Revolution)
Term
What French essayist suggested emotional distance when raising children, especially infants?
Definition
Michel de Montaigne
Term
Which novelist said "spare the rod and spoil the child?"
Definition
Daniel Defoe
Term
Who educated midwives throughout 18th c. France and was nicknamed "the Nation's midwife?"
Definition
Madame du Coudray
Term
The most remarkable dietary change in the 18th c. was in the consumption of _____ and _____.
Definition
Sugar, tea
Term
Where was the wet nursing business especially common?
Definition
France
Term
Despite harsher laws, why did many women still turn to prostitution to make a living?
Definition
shortage of job opportunities
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Describe the diet of the urban poor.
Definition
Lots of bread and veggies, esp. peas and beans
Term
To 18th c. peasants, the dietary staple was _____.
Definition
bread
Term
Which work argued for "natural laws" governing boys' and girls' educations?
Definition
Rousseau, Emile
Term
In towns, apprenticeship began around what age? What would apprenticeship hopefully lead to?
Definition
15, guild admittance
Term
What did midwives do?
Definition
Female world- assisted in childbirth and labor
Term
Why did the rich and the poor in urban areas rely on wet-nursing?
Definition
Rich believed breastfeeding was "crude and undignified"
Poor moms had to work
Term
What kinds of material did common people read in early modern Europe?
Definition
Religious- Bible and chapbooks
Entertainment
Practical- almanacs
Term
Why did surgeons improve their techniques in the 18th c.?
Definition
battlefield experience
Term
Even in the best foundling hospitals, at least __% of babies died within a year.
Definition
50
Term
The basic religious unit of 18th c. Europe was the _____.
Definition
parish church
Term
Describe the diet of the middle-class townspeople and traders, ca. 1700.
Definition
Variety of meat, veggies and fruit due to market gardens
Still lots of bread and beans
Term
What obstacles did 18th c. surgeons face? (2)
Definition
1) No anesthesia
2) unsanitary conditions and no knowledge of bacteriology
Term
Why didn't the peasantry and urban poor eat a lot of meat, ca. 1700?
Definition
Nobles and landowners imposed harsh game laws
Term
How did peasants in Catholic countries in the late 18th c. worship?
Definition
"ecstatic worship"
Some obscure/pagan beliefs and time honored superstitions
Term
Why was domestic service a difficult life for young girls? (3)
Definition
1) Little independence (wage directly to parents)
2) Physical working and exploitation
3) Sexual harassment --> pregnancy --> girl thrown out of household and has to turn to prostitution
Term
Why were illegitimacy rates low in preindustrial Europe?
Definition
1) Premarital sex not taken lightly
-"pregnancy set the marriage date"
2) Strong community controls and pressure from parents, priests, landlords
3) community responses- no privacy, immorality given "loud and unfavorable publicity"
Term
Why did Europeans have more children despite late marriage?
Definition
High infant/child mortality rates
Term
What did parish churches do?
Definition
1) Organized processions, pilgrimages
2) Provided a focal point of community life
3) Kept records and registers
4) Charity
Term
What new ideas or techniques of child-rearing emerged after the Enlightenment? (3)
Definition
1) Greater tenderness
2) Maternal breastfeeding
3) Comfortable clothing
Term
The main impact of the Protestant Reformation on local religious life was a shift to ______.
Definition
State-controlled churches (bureaucratization), even in the Catholic church
Term
What were the various groups considered "medical practitioners" in the 18th c.? (5)
Definition
1) Faith healers
2) Apothecaries
3) Physicians
4) Surgeons
5) Midwives
Term
Apothecaries sold ______, _____, and _____.
Definition
herbs, drugs, patent medicines
Term
What changes to inner spaces occurred in the 18th c.? (2)
Definition
1) specific functions to rooms
2) comfort and convenience- individualization (own dishes)
Term
By the end of the 18th c., foundling hospitals admitted ___#___ infants annually.
Definition
100,000
Term
How was Rousseau a hypocrite?
Definition
Abandoned all 5 of his children to foundling hospitals
Term
The urban Catholic revival in the 17th c. was called _____.
Definition
Jansenism
Term
What were major differences between Protestantism and Catholicism ca. 1700?
Definition
CATHOLICS
baroque art, communal religion: affected pop culture
PROTESTANTS
removed art from churches, individual religion
Term
Until ____, late marriage did not lead to high illegitimacy rates.
Definition
around 1750
Term
Before the 19th c., what was birth control like?
Definition
"not unknown, but primitive and quite undependable" and rare.
withdrawal method and primitive condoms
Term
Faith healers were most prominent in _____ areas.
Definition
Rural
Term
What new patterns of marriage and sex emerged after/during the Industrious Revolution? (2) Why?
Definition
1) Earlier marriage
-shift from cottage industry = mobility
-no need to inherit land
-more extensive courtship/marrying for love
2) Illegitimacy explosion
-Mobility = weaker community controls
-Easier for men to break promises
-Insecure jobs (as opp. to inheritance0
Term
Did the consumer revolution have a greater impact on males or females?
Definition
females
Term
What were the results of more education in early modern Europe? (2)
Definition
1) Literacy rates up
2) More books sold- more people reading
Term
The festival involving excessive drinking, masquerades, and dancing, where the social order was turned upside down was known as _____.
Definition
Carnival
Term
Physicians placed great stress on which two medical treatments/techniques in the 18th c.?
Definition
Purging, bloodletting
Term
Apothecaries and especially physicians treated what kind of patients?
Definition
Rich urban patients
Term
What was the most common job for adolescent girls? Why?
Definition
Domestic service because of fewer apprenticeships
Term
What new foods from the colonies were introduced in the 18th c.? (8)
Definition
Corn, squash, tomatoes, potatoes, expensive fruits, coffee, tobacco, chocolate
Term
What is the main reason for the 18th c. increase in schooling?
Definition
religious rivalry
Term
What were the new attitudes towards consuming practices in the 18th c.?
Definition
Identity tied to purchasing goods
Term
Young men whose families could not afford apprenticeship did which kinds of jobs?
Definition
Hired hands, wage laborers
Term
What were 18th c. group activities people did for fun? (4)
Definition
1) Fireplace talks
2) Hanging out at pubs and drinking
3) Urban fairs
4) Gambling and watching blood sports
Term
Which country led the way in the development of universal education? Why?
Definition
Prussia: Protestant church encouraged all to read the Bible
Term
What group responded to the late 18th c. critical attack of wet-nursing?
Definition
Upper-class women started breastfeeding their own babies
Term
What two aspects of family life are considered distinctive features of Europe?
Definition
1) Nuclear family
2) Late Marriage (maturity)
Term
What was a courtesan?
Definition
Prostitute protected by a wealthy master who lived a privileged life
Term
Describe the diet of the upper-class ca. 1700.
Definition
"rapacious carnivores" who ate little veggies and drank a lot of alcohol
Term
How did Methodism spread?
Definition
Wesley's preaching in open fields
Term
Why did French women send their babies to wet-nurses? (3)
Definition
1) Cultural factors and tradition
2) Socioeconomic factors- industry
3) Biological factors- safest affordable alternative
Term
In the 18th c., where was literacy often highest? Why?
Definition
Border areas (religion): open to influence and competition from different churches
Term
Parish priests and Catholic hierarchies attempted to _____ 18th c. popular religions practices.
Definition
purify
Term
What factors contributed to the affordability of 18th c. clothing? (2)
Definition
1) More raw material from colonies
2) Increased female labor
Term
Who founded Methodism in what country?
Definition
John Wesley
England
Term
ALL clerics were _____ in the complicated Christian institutional system.
Definition
middlemen
Term
Which part of Europe ate the best ca. 1700?
Definition
Northwestern/Atlantic Europe
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