Reading...
Play button
Play button
Use LEFT and RIGHT arrow keys to navigate between flashcards;
Use UP and DOWN arrow keys to flip the card;
H to show hint;
A reads text to speech;
7 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
|
yeomanry
|
A class of small freeholders in England, between landed gentry and the rural poor.
|
|
|
bourgeoisie
|
Name for the middle class. Referred, in preindustrial times, to the middle levels of society between the aristocracy, which drew its income from the land, and the laboring poor, who depended on wages or charity.
|
|
|
gentry
|
The upper class, landowning aristocracy.
|
|
|
English Poor Law
|
It said that begging was a public nuisance and that the poor should be segregated in workhouses or hospices from the rest of society.
|
|
|
colleges in France
|
Combined the work of the English grammar school with what corresponded to the first year or two of university work at Oxford or Cambridge.
|
|
|
hidalgos
|
Lesser nobles or people aspiring to positions in the church or government. These were very numerous and Spain, and overlapped with what could be called the middle class in other countries.
|
|
|
robot
|
In Eastern Europe, peasants, in order to recieve their land back, owed three or four days a week of forced labor, called this in Bohemia and adjoining territories.
|
