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1
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How do individuals rights differ from today

A

no individual freedom and mostly belong to a group

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2
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Percent nobles population and their land ownage

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1 percent of population owning 1/4 of the land

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3
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Who becomes the richest commoners

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Commerce merchants

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4
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What are the two denominations of British nobles

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House of Lords. House of Commons

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5
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What is the house of the Lords

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They have a larger influence on laws

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6
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What is the House of commons

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Commerce focused

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7
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Difference between French and Britain nobles

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French are more split, dont pay taxes and are fancier

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What are the groups of French Nobles

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Nobles of Swords, Nobles of Robes

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9
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What is the older group of the French Nobles

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Nobles of the Swords, apparently descendants of the Crusaders

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10
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What are the Nobles of the Robes

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Get to be it by serving in government well

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11
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What is 2 small subset of Nobles in france

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Court Nobles and Country nobles aka Hoberquex

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How are the east european nobles different

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power over the life and death of surfs, absolute lords of their land

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13
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How do the french nobles get paid

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through fuedal dues from peasant tennants

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14
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What was the noble reaction to the growing monarch

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Aristocratic resurgance

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15
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How did Nobles protect positions

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Made it harder to become a noble. Made all military’s, church and government officials nobles. uses existing institutions such as parliament to limit the power of the monarch. and improved financial positions by collecting forgotten taxes from medieval dues

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16
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Examples of old new medieval taxes used by nobles

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Banalites (bread tax) and work tax

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17
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What was the peasant revolt

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Pugachevs rebellion in Russia in 1773-1776, crushed by Catherine the Great

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18
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What was the womens main concern in europe at the time

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leaving parents home and working enough to have adewut dowry to marry in her 20s

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19
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What is a Dowry

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an economic value brought by women when married

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20
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What was the education rate at this time

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90 percent of people did not have formal education

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21
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Where did Agricultural revoltion start

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Netherlands in late 1690

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22
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Why does the Agricultural revolution start where it did

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Because of the neccessity for more food for the growing population of Netherlands

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23
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What 2 countries made large advances in Agriculutre

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netherlands and Britian

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24
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Who creates Iron Plow

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Jethro Tull

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25
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Who creates crop rotation system

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Charles Turnip towns

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26
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What did crop rotation system replace and why

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Follow feild system was used before, led to the ability to use all of the land at the same time rather than wait

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27
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What is the most important ingredient in the ag rev, how did it help

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Clover, provides food for animals, and replaces nutrients fast

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28
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Who creates selective breeding

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Robert Bakewell

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29
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What spread the information of ag rev

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Athrur young edidted the Animals of Agriculure, which spread the news

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30
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What was the main producer of agriculure at the time

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small farms, ineffecient

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31
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What is the enclosure movement

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Land lords walled off large chunks of land and let everyone work together to be more productive, ends the small farm

32
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What did parliament do in ag rev

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closed 1/2 mil acres of land

33
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what leads to larger population

A

the growth of potatos in the ag rev

34
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What intros into the capatilist movement

A

Enclosure movement

35
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How does the ag rev change east euro

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not much except the usage of potato and maize from the colombian exchange

36
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when does the population start to increase

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halfway through 17th century

37
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population from 1700 to 1800 to 1850 exact numbers

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110 - 190 - 270 million

38
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First industry to come out of industrial rev

A

Britians Textile industry

39
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Largest city in Europe

A

London

40
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Reasons why London is good (11)

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center of fashion, newspaper, 13 colonies, free trade zone, social mobility, roads, rivers, coal/iron, political system, banks, tax

41
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First steam engine, when who

A

1776 James watts

42
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breakthrough for industry was what

A

usage of iron

43
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how was iron invented

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Coke was used instead of charchol for a hotter fire, less impurities, removed more slag

44
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Who created iron

A

Henry Cort

45
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Who invented steel

A

Henry Bessemer

46
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4 cities in 1500 with cities larger than 100k

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Millian, Vennice, Paris, Naples

47
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What 2 types of cities grew fastest

A

Port Cities, Capitials

48
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what city grew the most

A

London 500k

49
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7 cities in 1700 with 100k pop

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London, Paris, rome, Seville, Antewerp, Amsterdam, Palermo

50
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How many cities in 1700 had more than 100k

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17

51
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Who lives in the cities

A

Borgeouis, Artisians and jews because they cant own land

52
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Who are Skilled laborers

A

artisians Grocers, Butcers, Upper lower class in guildes

53
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Where do Jews mostly live

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Segregatted ghetos in cities, countries more to the east had more jews, less in the west

54
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Where does spain own

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Ceneral south amrica except brazil, Flordia, mexico, cali, 1/2 hati island

55
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where does france own

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Quebec, Ohio miss river valley, St. Dominique, Quadalupe, Martinique

56
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Where does Britian own

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13 colonies, novia scotia, new foundland, jamacia, barbadoc, india port

57
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where odes dutch own

A

Suninam, Dutch east indies from indonesia

58
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What are the most important holdings for all places

A

the west indies carribean

59
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what did West indies produce

A

Sugar, tobbaco, cotton, inidgo, coffee

60
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why is sugar so important

A

it is used to sweeten the items that britian was addictied to

61
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What was the first international slave trade

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Muslim n africa and sub saharran africa

62
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who took 1st slaves

A

Portugeese and spanish in order to work on sugar plantation

63
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where and how were slaves traded in africa

A

Local tribal chiefs in west africa

64
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why was the trans atlantic slave trade neccesary

A

Naties dies from disease, sugar is intensive proccess to make

65
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who took the most slaves

A

Brazil by far, 9 million slaves overall though

66
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first slave revolt

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St. domingo slave revolt in 1794 on the french part, killed every white person on the island and declared it free

67
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who outlaws transatlantic slave trade first

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Great britian in 1807

68
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last place to outlaw slavery

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Brazil 1888

69
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Native american draft animals

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Non except Llama

70
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what was the NA diet

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Little meat, corn, beans, potatos

71
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what did NA give to colombian people in dieases

A

Syphillis

72
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what animals came from europe

A

pig cow sheep goat horse

73
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what food came from europe

A

peaches oranges, grapes, melons, bananas, onions, rice

74
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what food did europe get

A

maize potato pwpper beans peanuts squash tabbaco

75
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what is mercantalism

A

amassing as much gold and silver as posisble