Study
Guide for Chapter 16 –Society and Economy Under the Old Regime
(1700-1799) Terms and People to Know
Ch16
Sec1 (Pages 512-519)
Old
Regime
guilds House of Lords House of Commons
nobles of the sword nobles of
the robe hobereaux
Taille vingtieme
corvees
szlachta Prince Esterhazy Table of Ranks
Empresss Anna Peter III
Charter of the Nobilty Catherine the Great aristocratic resurgence banalites
seigneurs robot barshchina
cift
Pugachev’s rebellion Emelyan
Pugachev Game Laws poaching
Gentry
higglers
family
economy
domestic economy
neolocalism servant dowry
childbirth puerperal
fever wet nurse
infanticide
Agricultural
Revolution dikes
windmills clover turnips
Cornelius Vermuyden Jethro
Tull
Charles "Turnip" Townsend Robert
Bakewell Arthur Young
Annals of Agriculture British
Board of Agriculture
Enclosure Movement Elbe River maize (corn) potato
Industrial Revolution flax consumerism
Josiah Wedgwood
Newspapers
textiles domestic putting out - system of textile
production The Spinning Jenny John Kay
Flying Shuttle
James Hargreaves Richard
Arkwright Water Frame
Edmund Cartwright powered loom James Watt
steam engine
Thomas Newcomen Matthew Boulton John Wilkinson
coke
Henry Cort Francis Wheatley Priscilla
Paris
Milan Venice Naples
urbanization Jan De
Vries William Hogarth
oligarchy
miasma bourgeoisie artisans
guilds apprentice journeyman
master urban riot Lord George Gordon Gordon
Riots
ghettos "court
Jews" Samuel Oppenheimer
Ideas
to remember
•
What were the varied privileges and powers of
• What was the plight of the rural European
peasants?
• What was the European family structure and the
family economy like in the 18th centiury.
• What
caused urban growth and the social tensions that accompanied it.
• What were the strains on the institutions of
the Old Regime brought about by social change.