Wet-Nurses
Foundling Homes
Attitudes Toward Children
Education
Literacy
100
What did wet-nurses do?
What is they nursed upper-class women's infants.
100
Was it uncommon to allow newborn babies to die when there was no money to feed them in the ancient times?
What is yes.
100
Why did parents abandon their babies?
What is they didn't have enough money to support them.
100
How led the was of colleges in the sixteenth century?
What is the aristocracy and the rich. It was often run by Jesuits.
100
When was literacy at its highest?
What is between 1600 and 1800.
200
Where was it common for babies to be given a sweetened rag to suck on?
What is many areas of Russia.
200
Who denounced infanticide?
What is the early medieval church influenced by the Jewish law.
200
Why didn't upper-class women breastfeed their babies?
What is they felt that it was crude, common, and undignified.
200
What was the age range at the elementary schools during the seventeenth century?
What is seven to twelve.
200
How did the growth of literacy promote a growth in reading?
What is common people read to get their mind off things.
300
Was wet-nursing a common business in the eighteenth century?
What is yes.
300
A women who had a child and couldn't support had two choices. What were they?
What is she would either have an abortion or leave they baby in front of the church.
300
Since parents would "roll over" to kill their babies, what did Austria do in 1784?
What is Austria passed a law that made it illegal for parents to sleep in the same bed with the babies.
300
Who led the way to the universal development of education?
What is Prussia.
300
What were chapbooks?
What is books printed with the cheapest paper available for the poor. It often contained religious writings.
400
What was another name for wet-nurses?
What is killing nurses.
400
In the late seventeenth century, who was fed up with the number of children left on the step of Notre Dome and decided the establish a foundling home?
What is Saint Vincent de Paul.
400
Who called for greater love and attention towards children from the middle of the century?
What is Jean- Jacques Rousseau and other critics.
400
What were the children taught in these schools?
What is religion and literature.
400
Literature often contained which of these genres in the 18th century?
What is fairy tales, medieval romances, fictionalized history, and fantastic adventures.
500
When a baby turned out poorly, who was the one the people blamed? Why?
What is the wet-nurse because it was said they'd pass down their bad traits to the baby.
500
What was the bad thing about foundling homes?
What is many children were being abandoned and started to die off.
500
When did children start getting attention and love from their parents?
What is by the end of the eighteenth century.
500
Who established the general system of elementary education in 1774?
What is Maria Theresa.
500
How did the people feel about literature?
What is the common people enjoyed reading and were content with the works that contained traditional values. They did not foster criticism.
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