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Chapter 3 - Section 12 & 13 Flashcards

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Johann Fugger

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small town weaver, cloth business. lent $ to popes and Charles V, became bankers to the Hapsburgs in Germany and Spain

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Entrepreneur

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people who effectively sell goods

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usury

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taking interest on a loan

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Fuggerism

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lending $$$ for interest

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mercantilism

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government prosperous through trading and money

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English Poor Law

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forced people to work

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bourgeoisie

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middle class - had an average life

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grammar schools

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schools of secondary level

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colleges

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French schools that combined grammar schools and parts of universities

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hidalgos

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Spanish lesser nobles

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plebeians

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common people

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Junkers

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Northeastern German nobles

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hereditary subjection

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serfdom in Germany

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robot

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tax on peasants (similar to corvees)

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corvee

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tax on peasants (similar to robots)

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internal tariffs

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tax on trade within country

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Nations that dealt with internal strife and religion issues

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France, England, Netherlands, Holy Roman Empire

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Why was the Atlantic found?

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It was an H2O trade route to Asia and provided access to silk, and cotton rugs.

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What did the Atlantic trade routes lead to?

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A Religion War where Spain and Germany are weakened, and the Dutch, English, and French rise.

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Prince Henry the Navigator

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15th Century - NW Africa

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Bartholomew Dias

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1488 - South Africa

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Vasco de Gama

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Malabar Coast, SW India

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Columbus

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Spain backs him to discover a route to India. He stumbles on America.

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Conquistadores

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Spanish soldiers, explorers, adventurers that controlled America - brutal, gruesome.

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Encomienda System
Workers of Europeans, sometimes got land for work, beginning of slavery
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Creoles
People born in America
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Mestizos
Mixed European/"Indian" descent
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Cortez
Reached Tenochtitlan, received graciously. Seized emperor Montezuma and his men, forced to surrender, executed. He learned soon after that the Aztecs had plundered Veracruz.
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Magellan
Circumnavigated the globe in 1520 due to a route from Atlantic to Pacific
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Spanish/Portuguese agreement
1494 Line of Demarcation; globe divided in an imaginary north/south line.
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Educational advances
Printing press, universities created
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Potosi, Peru
Silver mines financed European projects of the Spanish King
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Increase of populations leads to...
Increase in food demand, new land cultivated, increase in cost of production, AGRICULTURAL PRICES RISE THE PRICE REVOLUTION
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New Entrepreneurs (and examples)
Started as merchants, ended as bankers (like the Medicis or the Fuggers)
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putting out system
Entrepreneurs would send wok to country folk, eliminating the guild system.
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Labor Force in Labor system...
Worked when needed>Received pay>Little interest in task
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Factories lead to...
much larger businesses
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Entrepreneurs in Labor system...
Directed all affairs>No personal connection
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New Industries
Mining, Books, Cannons, Muskets, Printing Press, Ship building. New monarchies had high demand for weapons, barracks, and uniforms.
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Bankers started charging this, which churches denounces.
Interest (as high as 30%)
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Interest rates go down as...
Banks become more established.
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The Bank of Amsterdam
an extremely safe place to put your money
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Industry (for banks)
Processes of production
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Producers (for banks)
Spinners, weavers
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Entrepreneurs (for banks)
where to be sold
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Mercantilism
Government policy to build up a strong and self-sufficient government.
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Mercantilism was opposed to...
Guilds and Localist views
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What was the status of French and English guilds?
England's guilds have little importance. | France keeps their guilds for an easy tax.
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What was England's goal at the time?
Set the poor to work.
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What is the importance of National Support?
Wanted to be back by monarchy, not just a city.
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Tariff Changes include
Wanting free trade, but it was difficult to break from traditions, except in England.
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East India Companies
Monopoly - only merchants that belong to company could legally engage in trade in that region
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Examples of National Markets
England (1600) Dutch (1602) French (1664)
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Europe was broken into four classes...
Aristocracy, middle class, agricultural peasants, working poor
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The agricultural peasants had two groups. One prospered...
Due to inflation of crop prices. Their manorial lord asked for the same price, but their prices went up. Called Yeomen in Britain.
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The agricultural peasants had two groups. One didn't prosper...
These peasants depended on wages and therefore, didn't become as wealthy.
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Lords of yeomen only did well if...
They received agriculture instead of a fixed sum of money, which was worth less due to inflation.
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The aristocracy broke into two types. The old type...
had refined tastes, emphasized education for children, family was badge of honor.
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The aristocracy broke into two types. The new type...
worked in the King's service. They held government/military offices.
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Bourgeois
Middle class
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Middle class/bourgeois, was called in English...
The Burghers.
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During the Commercial Revolution, this class was gaining on the aristocracy.
The middle class.
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The catholic clergy was part of this class.
All of them.
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The Protestant clergy was part of this class.
Mostly middle class.
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The guild members were part of this class.
Middle class.
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The upper classes did better, and the poor did worse. Name some poor jobs.
Domestic service, water carriers, poop removers, stable boys, footmen, backup chambermaids, sailors.
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Education was...
Suddenly very important.
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In England, these schools starting popping up.
Grammar schools, equivalent to secondary schools.
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French's grammar school
Colleges.
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Schools for girls were...
rare.
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Universities were everywhere, but mostly...
Spain
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Government helped form social classes in these ways.
Inhibited or promoted economic growth, government defined class, king could create nobles, nobles might have been exempt from taxes.
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Eastern Europe lords, aka...
Junkers
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In Eastern Europe, there was less of a...
Middle class.
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Most in the east fell into
Hereditary subjection, aka serfdom
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Serfs owed forced labor, which is called this, in Bohemia.
Robot
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Serfs could not do a lot of things without permission of their...
Lord
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However bad being a peasant was in the west,
Being a serf in the east was worse.
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During the Commercial Revolution, a country was doing poorly and one was doing better. Which ones?
Spain was doing poorly, and Dutch were doing phenomenally.

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