Chapters 15-17 Flashcards
Old Regime
Social, political, economic relationships in France before 1789
18th century Aristocracy
1-5% of population, wealthiest sector, separate parliament, influenced social and political life, willing to invest in innovations, power in parliamentary system
French nobility
“of the sword” “of the robe”, w/ royal court or not, exempt from taille, vingtieme(land tax), corvees, exclusive hunting rights. Poland-prevent centralization. Junkers (prussia) Szlachtas (poland) Boyars (Russian)
Aristocratic Resurgence
Nobility reacting to threat to positions; made it more difficult to become a noble, institutions against monarchy, more tax exemptions
Economic basis
Agrarian, land, wheat
English Game Laws
Benefit of household, landed gentry, royals, aristocrats, regulate could/couldn’t hunt on land
Family economy characteristics
Basic unit of production/consumption, servants, NW-nuclear, E-extended, serfdom, subsistence
Concerns of women
Establish/maintain household
Children
Sent to wet nurses, worked, economic burden, upper class got education, foundling hospitals
Bread prices
Rose slowly and steadily
Agricultural methods used by Dutch
Dykes (dams) Polders (drained ocean land) clover and turnips, fertilizer
Population 1700-1800
1700-120 million 1800-190 million
Crops introduced from New World
Cloer, turnips to replenish iron, animal fodder, potato, more crops/acre, more children surviving
Innovations/Contributors to Ag Revolution
Jethro Tull-Iron plow, seed, drill. “Turnip” Charles Townsend-fertilizer, crop rotation. Robert Bake well-selective breeding
Enclosure Movement
Consolidate land to enclose available land, replaced 2-3 Open Field System, commercialized agriculture
Open-Field System
2-3 Field system (one land left blank)
Cause/Effect/Characteristics of consumer revolution
More demand from more people, more income, disposable money, entrepreneurs, marketing (josiah wedgwood) arked by ag. Rev –> captialism
Most important industry in Industrial Revolution
Textile
Water frame
1769-Richard Arkwright-make woven fabric pure cotton led to small factories