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Chapter 19 Vocab
APEuro McKay-A History of Western Society
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12th Grade
10/24/2012

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Community Controls
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a pattern of cooperation and common action in a traditional village that sought to uphold the economic, social, and moral stability of the closely knit community
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illegitimacy explosion
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the sharp increas in out-of-wedlock births that occurred in Europe between 1750 and 1850, caused by low wages and the breakdown of community controls
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wet-nursing
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A widespread and flourishing business in the 18th c. in which women were paid to breast-feed other women's babies
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blood sports
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Popular with the 18th c. European masses, events such as bull-baiting and cockfighting that involved inflicting violence and bloodshed on animals
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Carnival
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The few days of revelry in Catholic countries that preceded Len and that included drinking, masquerading, dancing, and rowdy spectacles that turned the established order upside down.
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Just Price
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the idea that prices should be fair, protecting both comsumers and producers, and that they should be imposed by government decree if necessary.
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Consumer Revolution
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The wide-ranging growth in comsumption and new attitues toward consumer goods that emerged in the cities of northwestern Europe in the second half of the 18th c.
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Pietism
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A Protestant revival movement in early 18th c Germany and candinavia that emphasized a warm and emotional religion, the priesthood of all believers, and the power of Christian rebirth in everyday affairs.
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Methodists
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Members of a Protestant revival movement stated by John Wesley, so called because they were so methodical in their devotion.
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Jansenism
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A sect of Catholicism originating with Cornelius Jansen that emphasized the heavy weight of original sin and accepted the doctrine of predestination; it was outlawed as heresy by the pope
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