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106275646structuredthe old regime was very _______ with everybody in particular groups like the church nobles and third estate (everybody else) and each get rights based on those groups0
106275647aristocratsthese people get the privileges by birth to be in the house of lords, inherit estates, money etc.1
106275648tailleland tax that peasants must pay2
106275649corveeforced labor from local lord (feudal due in addition to all their other payments)3
106275650swordnobles of the _____ have privliges based on the feudal arrangement as the protector (knight)4
106275651robenobles of the ____ are more recent nobles who get their titles because the king appoints them5
106275652seigneurlord in french6
106275653robotservice required of serfs7
106275654serfs_____ had the least amount of rights closer to the east (russia) where they were tied to the noble not the land and their rights decreased8
106275655pugachev's rebellionrebellion that promised serfs freedom but catherine violently suppressed it so that the nobles would support her and then the serf's were even worse off9
106275656family economythe basic structure of production and consumption in preindustrial europe (everybody worked)10
106275657northwesternfamilies need to establish independence before marriage so they marry later and have a smaller family (more people in trade)11
106275658easternfamilies that live together and marry early and live together and have closer families12
106275659dowryproperty or money brought by a bride to her husband on their marriage13
106275660childrenmany _____ died or put in a foundling hospital or given to wet nurses14
106275661atlanticopening of the _____ lead to better ships and trade in america and asia and africa which led to the rise in trade15
106275662commercial revolutionterm of econ changes in the 15th through 17th centuries (rise in trade)16
106275663domestic systemproduce items by households instead of through towns with their guild restrictions so certian people would own materials (merchants) and other people would work to produce them17
106275664commercial capitalistsmerchants with money produce joint-stock companies (or invest)/ new industries trying to develop more or newer or cheaper products (ships or silk --> produced in mass ammounts18
106275665interestbanks charge _____on loans and then pay ____to people putting money in the bank19
106275666joint-stocka company that people invested in to make money20
106275667slave tradetrade slaves for products in africa21
106275668triangle tradetrade across the atlantic (dominated by euro) that traded materials from america (sugar etc) to euro who made products to trade with africa who sent slaves to america22
106275669plantation systemThe economic system stretching between Chesapeake Bay and Brazil that produced crops, especially sugar, cotton, and tobacco, using slave labor on large estates23
106275670kantgerman philosopher who thought women should dare the think and we should step outside previously held truths and learn the truth for ourselves.24
106275671experienceskant thinks that this shapes reality so truth and reality are different for everybody and it is imposible to know actual truth25
106275672universalacording to kant some ___ truths can be reasoned if everybody can do it and it still works (therefore it is right)26
106275673newtonsuggests the universe is mechanistic (operates like a machine) and you can understand the principals according to basic math27
106275674Lockesuggests progress is from experience and every human is born with a tabula rasta so people can create a better society with good experience and everybody is equal28
106275675public opinionpeople start to create opinions after the print culture emerges29
106275676philosopheswriters/critics/reformers30
106275677voltairethe leading philosophe who thought that said "crush the infamous thing"31
106275678deismreligion -- universe is a clock and god is the divine watchmaker who doesn;t make the clock turn he just sets it up (rejected major religious beliefs that god was a part of the world with miracles and listening to prayers etc32
106275679lockewrote letter concerning toleration to advise religious tolerance33
106275680humewrote of miracles (rejecting miracles)34
106275681spinozagod is the only thing in the world that exists35
106275682spinozawrote ethics (pantheism) which talks about no outside forces and rejects major jew practices36
106275683mendelssohntries to reconcile enlightenment with jews (relig tolerance so they can practice freely because they aren't a threat to the govt)37
106275684encyclopediagoal of book was to collect knowledge so that it was accessible to everybody (diderot was main person)38
106275685beccariawrote on crimes and punishment (punishment should be proportional to the crime i.e. sent to prison to rehabilitate them because humans can learn to be good)39
106275686beccariathought that criminal punishment should be reformed because rejected violence and war40
106275687physiocratsin france the govt financial advisers who thought that reducing limits on people will make them more prosperous (guild restrictions and tarrifs)41
106275688adam smithsaid let people do what they want and the govt should stay out of the econ42
106275689let them do as they pleaselaissez faire43
106275690adam smithwrote on the wealth of nations (rights of people being proclaimed and talked about supply and demand)44
106275691montesquieugovt should be limited (he was against absolutism)45
106275692on the spirit of lawsmontesqeieu's book that talked about 3 branches of govt the leg exec and jud to protect against tyranny46
106275693rousseauthought that women are weaker and "all men are born free but everywhere they are in chains"47
106275694emilewomen belong in the house because they are weaker (the name for rousseau's phil. on women)48
106275695Rousseauwrote on the origin of inequality which said that the first govt happened when some people stood up and put limits on everybody else (rejects civ --> should go back to nature but then there would be chaos so there has to be a balence b/w indiv rights and needs on community49
106275696rousseauwrote the the social contract (man agrees to follow the general will which is what is best for people = max freedom)50
106275697mary wollstonecraftwrote vindication on the rights of women (women should be able to participate in society too)51
106275698war of jenkins's earengland vs spain (right before the war of Aust Succession)52
106275699diplomatic revolutionFrance and Austria became allies because they decided that prussia was the greatest threat to the balance of power53
106275700peace of aix-la-chapellethe treaty after the war of aust succession that put everything back to the status quo except that prussia got silesia54
106275701war of austrian successionprussia invades austria (maria theressa) and takes silesia --> britain and austria vs france and prussia55
1062757027 years wardiplomatic revolution = so that britain and prussia vs france and austria56
106275703peace of paris1783 war overseas --> major victory for britian = dominant naval power so they kicked out the french from N America (they get everything E of Mississippi river)57
106278834treaty of paristreaty in 1763 reaty after the 7 years war that declared prussia and britain the winners58

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