A.P. Euro Chapter 20 terms
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Terms | Definitions |
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 Extended family | This was a one of the tw traditional family customs celebrated in the 1700, in Europe. This is where the bride and groom live in one of their familie's homes. This provided security against omens and other bad superstitions. The other type of family was the nuclear family. In this way of family the husband and wife would go out and buy a home for themselves. |
| Community controls | This was the old-fashion version of neighborhood watch. This was how the communtiy kept control in their neighborhood by causing non-physical, but embarissing punishment, like throwing vegatbles at their home in the middle of the night. This also kept in tac their motivatoin to do good at the risk of being publicly humiliated. |
| Illegitimacy explosion | This is the basic idea of how reasherchers describe the babies coming out of nowhere in 1750-1850. Allmost all of Europe experienced it. This described all the illigitament babies being born. More and more women were not abstaining from premarital sex, and more and more men were not marrying the women that they got pregnant. |
| Wet-nursing | This was the job that many women had to take at the time, it ment to care for someone else's baby. They usually had little-to no contact with the family itself, for they were at work when she did her job. Some wet-nurses were killing-nurses who killed their baby so they could recive payment and go onto the next baby. |
| Killing Nurses | These nurses were types of wet-nurses, but instead of caring for their baby, they killed them right off the bat just to recive the payment and move onto the next baby. Many of these nurses existed at around the time of the Illegitimacy explosion. People statred to make laws and rules against them so they wouldn't happen as often. |
| Infanticide | This was the belief by the early medieval church. Because of this idea, which was mainly established by the Jews, said that every human life was sacred, no matter how small. This made it illegal, suprisingly enough it wasn't already, to kill young children for profit. It also banned abortion and other acts of terror on the kids. |
| Just price | This is the idea of the peasants about the prices at the market on food and stuff should be 'fair', contributing both to the consumer and the merchant. Well they need to learn that life is not fair. Becasue of bad harvests and large landowners buying out small farms, prices soared and the government did little- to nothing about it. |
| Purging | This was the act of clearing yout bowels by using a form of medicine, not to be consused with the way that the Church purges your sins, even though they have similar meaning. This proved that medicine was getting much better, for they could somehow make things like laxitives to satisfy people's needs across Europe. |
| Smallpox inoculation | This was a type of early vaccine. One main women, Lady Mary Wortley, who had been touched by the pox, learned this technique from Asia and muslims. It was very very risky becasue one out of every fifty people died from it, but if it didn't kill you, it made you a lot stronger. |
| Jesuits | These people were extrondonary teachers, for they were the ones who taught about religion and many other ideas. They formed colleges around all of Europe. They were ordered out of France by Louis the Fifteenth and Fracne and Spain urged Rome to completely get rid of them, Rome eventually did. |
| Pietism | This was a relgion formed during the Protestant Revivial in Germany. It was a warm and emotional reliligion that everyone could experience and had quite a lot of enthusiasium. They were mainly Catholic and wanted a revivial of the original Catholic practices. This religion strongly effected allmost all of Europe. |
| Methodists | This was a type of religion that was created by a man names John Wesly. They were called methodists because they were so methodical with their ideas. He first founded this idea at the college he was working for, Oxford. It had a great majority of skeptisism and that is why so many people were touched by its ideas. |
| Carnival | This was a celibration, much like the common one that we have around today. It was a once a year thing and always followed the forty days of lent. It lasted a few days and men and women of all the villages cames out and partied. They drank, sang, and danced the nights away. Also a show was usually put on, like a play or some other form of entertainment. |
| Blood- Sports | This was the idea of entertainment back then. All of what they did would now be calssified as aniaml cruleity. One of the sports was bullbaiting, where a group of dogs attacked a bull to the amuesment of the people. The meat produced was usually sold. The other well known one was cockfighting, where chickens were forced to wear insanly sharp metal razors on their feet and fight eachother to the death. |
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