Population
This 'revolution' increased the food supply, and contributed nutritious new foods during the 17th & 18th centuries.
What is the Agricultural Revolution
The Agricultural Revolution began here.
What are the Low Countries.
The father of Economic Liberalism.
Who is Adam Smith.
Neglectful attitudes toward children in the eighteenth century was conditioned mostly by this.
What are high infant mortality rates.
Artisan trade associations that began to lose power during the 18th century.
What were Guilds.
This epidemic mysteriously disappeared during the eighteenth century, contributing to a rise in population across Europe.
What is the bubonic plague.
The most prevalent system of land usage in Europe in the early modern era.
The Open Field System.
This state dominated the slave trade during the 18th century.
What is Great Britain.
Rise in births outside of marriage during the second half of the eighteenth century.
What is the Illegitimacy Explosion.
A surge in childhood education in the 18th century led a growth in this across Europe.
What are literacy rates.
This individual argued that population would always tend to grow faster than the food supply.
Who is Thomas Malthus.
The movement to fence in fields in order to farm more effectively, at the expense of poor peasants.
What is Enclosure.
The Navigation Acts represented this type of Economic policy.
What is Mercantilism.
This was a common threat for young women who worked as servants in wealthy households.
What is sexual assault.
The pattern of cooperation and common action in villages that sought to uphold social, economic, and moral stability.
What are community controls.
Population growth before the eighteenth century can be described as
What is slow and/or irregular.
The transformation of large numbers of small peasant farmers into landless rural wage earners was known as
What is Proletarianization.
People of Spanish ancestry born in the Americas.
Who were Creoles.
Poorer women who were paid by upper & middle class women to breast feed their babies.
Who were Wet Nurses.
First state to develop universal education during the eighteenth century.
What is Prussia.
This eastern European nation experienced the largest increase in population, partially due to territorial expansion.
What is Russia.
Nicknamed, "Turnip", he advocated for scientific farming.
Who is Lord Charles Townsend.
A stage of industrial development in which rural workers manufactured goods in their own homes.
What is the Cottage Industry.
This intellectual movement influenced changes in child rearing practices.
What is the Enlightenment.
The greatest medical achievement of the eighteenth century was the vaccine for this.
What is smallpox.