Chapter 6 Flashcards
Popular culture
Common people who weren’t educated as much
slow to catch up with the elite
spoke the local language
Elite culture
Minority of people with high skill constantly make new rules to keep others out the wealthy more educated etiquette spoke Latin
First countries to profit from age of oceanic communication
Portuguese and Spanish
Three nations that triumphed as a result of the decline of those two nations
British, French, Dutch
Increase in wealth in western Europe was brought by…
Commercial capitalism and domestic system
Two most populated cities in Europe
London and Paris
Main factor that lead to international war
Foreign trade and economic competition
Necessary for European merchants to succeed
Government support financially and in protection
How did British slow the competition of Indian cotton goods
Embargoes and tariffs
European-American trade became based on…
Plantations
The richest French sugar colony
Santo Domingo (Haiti)
Base of the rise of British capitalism
African American slaves
Which two groups competed against each other but eventually tended to merge
Bourgeoisie and aristocracy
In France, who won back some of the power Louis the 14th deprived them of
Nobles
What three groups in Great Britain were counterrevolutionary
Tories, scots, non-jurors (Anglican Church clergy)
Supporters of James II
Jacobites
Nickname of James II
The pretender
Two Jacobite rebellions
The forty five
The fifteen
Bubble
Wild investment in a particular aspect of the economy
Eventually “bursts”
How did Britain deal with debt
More modern, eventually pay back the debt with banking
initiated Prime Minister
How did France deal with debt
Medieval
pretending the debt didn’t exist (repudiate)
hurt their ability to get later well
How did Great Britain enable its economic strength to grow
They freed their people with no absolute monarchy
Gave incentive for what they did
educated them
Leadership policies of fleury and Walpole
Avoid war
Conflict between Great Britain and Spain in 1739
War of jenkin’s ear
