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1
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What is the more common type of family in Europe?

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Nuclear family

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in the 17th century, when did people typically marry and why?

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Older
No marriage until they could support themselves economically
Sons needed to wait until father dies and gets land
Daughter needed to wait until they gather a dowry

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Within families, what did boys and girls do?

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Boys plowed

Girls spun and tended to cattle

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Where did boys go when leaving home?

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Towns as an apprentice
-No marriage, several years
More often- drift from job to job

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Where did girls work outside of home?

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Servants in another family

  • Low wages paid to parents with hard work
  • No laws to restrict exploitation
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When was the illegitimacy explosion?

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1750s-1800s

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Why was there an illegitimacy explosion?

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Fewer men married the woman he got pregnant
Cottage Industry- not tied to the land, don’t wait to inherit, marry for love- not economy
-But still too unstable

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What was the view on breastfeeding?

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Done by poor mothers- good for baby- less likely to die, nutritious, but time consuming
Rich mothers- undignified

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What is a wet-nurse?

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Hired by richer mothers
A nurse with a child of her own is hired to breastfeed the baby for the mother
Could be negligent and greedy

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What are killing nurses?

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Wet-nurses who purposely let the child die so they could take the money and move on to the next pay

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What is infanticide?

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Deliberate killing of a baby (often girls) because the family is incapable of feeding and raising them
Or leave them at the Church doorstep

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12
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Who was Saint Vincent de Paul?

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Established the first Foundling home

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What was a Foundling home?

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Home for abandoned babies to prevent infanticide
Favorite charity of the rich
Many came, but few left

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Were children of great concern to their parents?

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No

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What were the mid-1800s changes in child care?

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Rousseau- love, tenderness, support foundlings, nurse babies, no swaddling,new teaching methods

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Who led the new interest in education?

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Prussia

17
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What group had colleges?

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Jesuits

18
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What was elementary education?

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Ages 7-12
Basic literature and religion
Promoted by religious reformers

19
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What was the diet of the poor?

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Grains and gruel
Vegetables- beans, peas, cabbage, carrots, and wild greens, then dried for the winter months
Meat- too expensive and deprived of hunting rights
Did not like milk

20
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What was the diet of the rich?

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Carnivores
Fish and meat
No vegetables
Sweets, cheeses, and nuts

21
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What disease did the poor get?

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Scurvy- rot gums, swell limbs, and weaken body

22
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What disease did the rich get?

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Gout

23
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How did diets begin to change?

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Potato- Vitamins A and C, carbs, calories, first in Ireland
White bread- less nutritious
Growing sugar consumption

24
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What are faith healers?

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Use exorcism
Sickness- evil demons inside a person
Religious relics, prayer, and laying of hands
Most effective with mental disorders

25
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What are apothecaries?

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Sold herbs, drugs, and patent medicine
Complex prescriptions
Dangerous purging and bloodletting

26
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Who were physicians?

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Men who were apprenticed in teen years from prosperous families
Experiment new methods
Bloodletting

27
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Who were surgeons?

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Medical and social progress
Anatomy studied seriously
Army battlefields- where they learned
Unclean- infections and death

28
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Who were midwives?

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Older widowed women
Trained by other midwives
Birthed babies and helped out with women
Attacked continually by surgeons in witch hunts

29
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What were hospitals like before reform?

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No isolation
Nurses- ignorant, greedy, and drunk
Surgery in bed
No fresh air 
Disease and infection spread
30
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What was the reform of the hospitals?

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Ventilation

31
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What did Tuke say?

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Reform mental hospitals
Previous- discipline, bleeding, and cold water, chains
1790- patients, not prisoners

32
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What is a lunatic?

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Craziness caused by the moonlight

33
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What did Lady Wortley Montagu do?

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Smallpox inoculation- pop the puss

34
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What did Edward Jenner do?

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Use cowpox to stop smallpox

35
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STUDY NOTECARDS!!!!

A

DO IT!!!

AP European History- By Chapter 19-24 (6 decks)

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