HIEU 202 Exam 1 Questions with Detailed
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Conditions of life in Early Modern Europe
✓✓ *Unstable
Feudal order eroding- nobles, peasants
*World of death- "nasty, brutish, short", poverty was the norm,
average lifespan of 25-27 years
*The killers: WAR, plague (Black Death killed ⅓ of population),
childbirth, starvation, hygiene
*Marriage/Family- basic unit of society and economy, extended
family, unpredictability of life put pressure to marry young,
marriages broken by death, sense of community
Louis XIV
✓✓ (1638-1715) Known as the Sun King, he was an absolute
monarch that completely controlled France. One of his greatest
accomplishments was the building of the palace at Versailles.
The Society of Orders
✓✓ (Estate)- 3 tiers, 1st Clergy (priests), 2nd Aristocracy
(knights/law), 3rd (everyone else/workers, 98%, craftsman,
peasants, farmers), each group had laws, aristocrats couldn't be
involved in business, Jews were hindered, class determined by
birth
Versailles
✓✓ A palace built by Louis XIV outside of Paris; it was home to
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
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The traditional economy
✓✓ An economy in which production is based on customs and
traditions and economic roles are typically passed down from
one generation to the next.
Siege of Vienna
✓✓ (1683) Ottoman Empire attemped to invade Vienna but
they were stopped by Leopold I
The Agricultural Revolution
✓✓ 1400s, pre-industrial needed 6 people working to feed 10,
produced enough to eat, family was prominent production,
commerce was trade/barter, no government central economy,
church provides welfare, work was seasonal and task-oriented,
time was season-oriented, farmers changed from 3 field 1 fallow
to 4 field green rotation, potato introduced(easy and nutritious)
War of the Spanish Succession
✓✓ a conflict, lasting from 1701 to 1713, in which a number of
European states fought to prevent the Bourbon family from
controlling Spain as well as France,
This was the war between France and Spain in order to unite
the two states under one ruler, Phillip V
Guilds
✓✓ "guilds" oversee trades for standards of production and
regulate prices and oversaw promotion
Common Law
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✓✓ A legal system based on custom and court rulings
The Commercial Revolution
✓✓ necessities made at home farm, trained craftsman for wood
and silk etc., "guilds" oversee trades for standards of production
and regulate prices and oversaw promotion, 7 year servant idea
came from Bible, change in surplus from productivity,
merchants sold surplus, surplus reinvested economy, economic
divisions in population of producers and owners, elite, source of
wealth wasn't just owning land but turned to
production/commerce
Parliament
✓✓ Britain's law-making assembly
Marco Polo
✓✓ 17, Venetian merchant, traveled to China, Silk Route,
spices, medicine, published account and gave awareness of
China
Charles I
✓✓ King of England, Scotland, and Ireland (1625-1649). His
power struggles with Parliament resulted in the English Civil
War (1642-1648) in which Charles was defeated. He was tried
for treason and beheaded in 1649
The Renaissance