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Question 1

What is the situation of the UK in 1700 ?

Answer 1

England and Wales are together. Scotland has the same King, but there’s different politics.

Question 2

How many people are there in Scotland at this time ?

Answer 2

1 M

Question 3

How many people are there in England and Wales at this time ?

Answer 3

5,8 M

Question 4

What is the most densely populated part of England ?

Answer 4

Eastern England

Question 5

How many people are there in London at this time ?

Answer 5

700 000

Question 6

Why is London the most densely populated city of England ?

Answer 6

It’s the most important political and economical scene

Question 7

A part from London what are the two largest towns of England ?

Answer 7

Bristol and Norwich

Question 8

How many market towns are there in the South of England ?

Answer 8

Over 600

Question 9

What is the chief occupation of England ?

Answer 9

Agriculture

Question 10

What are the most fertile places in England ?

Answer 10

The South with the British Isles.

Question 11

What is the main source of export of England ?

Answer 11

Woolen industry

Question 12

Where does the wooden industry thrive ?

Answer 12

West country and East Anglia (region)

Question 13

What did England produced and what woluld happen after ?

Answer 13

They produced raw material and it was then exported to the rest of Europe (particularly Netherland)

Question 14

What did the activites of England assure ?

Answer 14

Economic prosperity

Question 15

What is the population of Bristol ?

Answer 15

20 000

Question 16

How were the most cultivated land farmed ?

Answer 16

In open fileds

Question 17

What is an open field ?

Answer 17

fields surrounded by edgeless fields divided into separate strips shard among villagers

Question 18

How did the open fields function ?

Answer 18

Every year, 2/3 of the fields were devoted to corn crops. 1/3 remained fallow so that the soil could recover it’s richness. There were commons and wastelands which provided hay for the villagers’ livestock.

Question 19

What were the least populated part ?

Answer 19

Northern England and Wales

Question 20

What’s the situation is Northern England and Wales ?

Answer 20

It’s thinly populated, only 120 market towns in Northern England and 50 in Wales, very mountainous, agriculture consisted rather of sheep grazing

Question 21

How was the agriculture in the countryside ?

Answer 21

Adapted to traditional community lifen because it allowed cooperative ploughing (few families had plough and oxen
A relatively even distribution of soil

Question 22

Why the situation of the countryside idn’t change ?

Answer 22

The population was increasing only slowly

Question 23

What was the situation of the farmers in the countryside?

Answer 23

Large class of freeholders (they owned the land they farmed) but the most farmers were smallholders who rented the land from the nobility and gentry. And there were also landless labourers who worked in large farms.

Question 24

What happened that made the population decrease drastically ?

Answer 24

The Black plague that reduced the poplation by 1/3.

Question 25

What is the other important industries of the 18th century?

Answer 25

Mining and iron-smelting (separating the metal from the ore)

Question 26

Are there a lot of large-scale industry based on factory system?

Answer 26

No, for example the naval dockyard in Thames and on the South coast employed only hundreds of people.

Question 27

Why is the ocean crucial for Britain ?

Answer 27

Because of exportation and and since they are surrounded by water, they depend on it to be powerful.

Question 28

The early 18th century was an Age of what ? Explain.

Answer 28

An age of craftsmanship, it depended on human strengh and skills. Most industries were centred around home, and family owned their own tools or simple hand-worked machines.

Question 29

How was the situation of transports at this time ?

Answer 29

1) Lack of suitable transport facilities and proper roads; many roads were impassable in winter.
2) The road network basically catered for local needs. 3)Long distances were travelled by stagecoaches, but they were infrequent, uncomfortable
4) It was reflected in the heavy volume of river and coastal traffic for transporting bulky goods (coal, iron, timber, etc). London thus received coal by sea from Newcastle.

Question 30

What’s the public health situation at the time ?

Answer 30

1) Lot of killing deseases
2) High infant mortality
3) The poor were the most affected because of lack of food and inadequate shelters
4) The wealthiest were still affected too because of lack of sanitation and medical knowledge.

Question 31

How many children queen Anne had ? What happened to them ?

Answer 31

She had 17 and none of them could rich maturity.