Western Civilization - History Of European Society

320 Chapter 17 they then made the best profit that they could after paying the rent. Such long-term contracts protected peasant ...

The Social and Economic Structure of the Old Regime 321 tersburg reached sixty-eight thousand in 1730. Buda and Pest were then s ...

322 Chapter 17 wealth although they did not rival the wealth of landed nobles. Studies of wills probated during the Old Regime h ...

The Social and Economic Structure of the Old Regime 323 by monarchs in the late eighteenth century, as the king of Saxony did in ...

324 Chapter 17 four, but often more) without pay. Upon the comple- tion of their training, apprentices became journeymen and wer ...

The Social and Economic Structure of the Old Regime 325 created a Banque royale in 1717; the Prussians, a Bank of Prussia in 176 ...

326 Chapter 17 lived in slavery). African slaves were then sold to plan- tation owners, and the revenue was used to buy the agri ...

The Social and Economic Structure of the Old Regime 327 Royal decrees abolished the slavery of American Indi- ans (1755) and Asi ...

CHAPTER OUTLINE I. Introduction II. People and Space: Population Density, Travel, and Communication III. Life Expectancy in the ...

Daily Life in the Old Regime329 twenty-first century are also accustomed to life in densely concentrated populations. New York C ...

330Chapter 18 folklore, but they made travel risky for the few who could afford it. The fastest travel, for both people and good ...

Daily Life in the Old Regime331 first century. An examination of the 1740 death records for Edinburgh, for example, finds that t ...

332Chapter 18 of the disease as a “visitation of divine will.” Nonethe- less, the death of Louis XV led to the inoculation of hi ...

Daily Life in the Old Regime333 mulated in dung-heaps alongside peasant cottages. One of the keenest observers of that age, the ...

334Chapter 18 an artery), shows the state of learned medicine. A team of a dozen physicians first drew a pint of blood from his ...

Daily Life in the Old Regime335 Most of Europe lived chiefly on starches. The bibli- cal description of bread as “the staff of l ...

336Chapter 18 much of their calories and carbohydrates from them, partly because few nonalcoholic choices were available. The co ...

Daily Life in the Old Regime337 and northern Germany, short and rainy summer seasons severely limited the crops that could be gr ...

338Chapter 18 harvested unripe grain and roasted it, prolonging both life and famine. They turned to making bread from ground ch ...

Daily Life in the Old Regime339 people did not know that bacteria caused their intense toothaches. Medical wisdom held that the ...