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Women's "value" decreased during the Indust. Rev. because of three reasons:
1) domestic service = women associated with home, therefore = women do housework.
2) work looked traditional and "un-helpful."
3) People assumed that women were just worked to supplement husband's income. -
Merchants bring "raw materials" to peasants -> spin into thread -> bring to other peasants -> make finished product -> merchant sells product.
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Britisih - Owned 1/4 workable land
- paid their taxes
- sons took good positions in govt. or church French - of the sword & robe
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This was triggered by Agricul. Rev. and Sci. Rev. This was when Europe's economy pretty much developed uninterrupted.
Britain was powerhouse of industry -
Rebellions in Russia after Pugachev promised freedom to serfs;
Artisans rioted when bread prices got too high -
James Watt invented the Steam Engine, which helped to greatly expand industry. Also eventually revolutionalized transportation.
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NW Euro - Nuclear fam. Young adults leave to become servants to others. Marry in mid-twenties. E Euro - Big fam. Landlords push local marriges for peasant dependancy.
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Most Jews lived in ghettos
if you converted to Christianity you were welcomed in and gained back all your lost rights
pogroms = violence -
FOOD WAS REALLY IMPORTANT!!
Many new innovations and mechanics created to move along working on the land or in other aspects of like (i.e., spinning jenny)