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Enlightened absolutism
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Embraced the principles of the Enlightenment, especially its emphasis upon rationality.
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Madame de Pompadour
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She was blamed for establishing France's alliance with Austria, which led to the Seven Years' War.
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Landed gentry
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Members of the upper class families with country estates often farmed on their behalf by others.
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Pocket boroughs
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A borough in England whose representation was controlled by a single person or family.
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Pocket boroughs
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A borough in England whose representation was controlled by a single person or family.
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Hanoverians
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The dynasty which ruled the United Kingdom from 1714 to 1901.
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Robert Walpole
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English politician who led the Whig administration and is regarded as Britain's first prime minister.
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Duke of Newcastle
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British Royalist commander in the English Civil Wars.
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William Pitt the Elder
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Directed Britain country's military effort during the Seven Years' War
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Maria Theresa of Austria
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Queen of Hungary and Bohemia whose reign was marked by the War of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War.
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Catherine the Great
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She vastly increased the territory of the Russia through conquest and three partitions of Poland.
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Emelian Ivanovich Pugachev
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Russian peasant leader, head of the peasant rebellion of 1773–74.
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Treaty of Kuchuk-Kainarji
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Peace treaty signed by Catherine II.
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Pragmatic Sanction
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Designed to ensure that the Austrian throne would be inherited by Emperor Charles VI's daughter, Maria Theresa.
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Silesia
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Passed to the Austrian Habsburgs in 1526; it was taken by Prussia in 1742.
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Count Wenzel von Kaunitz
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He represented Austria at the 1748 Aix-la-Chapelle peace conference and was ambassador to Paris.
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Robert Clive
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His reorganizing of Bengal helped establish Britain's power in India.
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Treaty of Paris
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Together with the treaty of Hubertusburg, This treaty terminated the Seven Years War.
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Primogeniture
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The right of the eldest child, especially the eldest son, to inherit the entire estate of one or both parents.
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Open-field system
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Crop system with each field containing a different crop as part of a three field crop rotation.
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Jethro Tull
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He perfected a horse-drawn seed drill that economically sowed seeds in neat rows.
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Enclosure
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The process of conversion of common land to private ownership.
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Agricultural revolution
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Included the reallocation of land ownership to make farms more compact and increased technical improvements.
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John Law
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He founded the Banque Générale, which was authorized to issue notes.
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"Putting-out" system
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Work was contracted by a central agent to subcontractors who completed the work in their own facility
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Richard Arkwright
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British inventor and manufacturer who patented a machine for spinning cotton thread.
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Georgian style
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Design and decorative arts of Britain during the reigns of the first four Georges.
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The "Grand Tour"
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A tour of the major European cities, considered essential to a well-bred man's education.
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Patrician oligarchies
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Government by land-owning men.
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