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The most commonly spoken dialect in France, considered a peasant language
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Patois
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The most commonly spoken dialect in Germany, considered a peasant language
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Volkssprache
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Meaning "farewell to meat" and was used to describe the several weeks preceding Lent where good Christians were to abstand during the Lenten fast
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Carnival
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A British merchant was traded in defiance of the legal monopoly of the East India Company and who purchased an 410 karat diamond
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"Diamond" Pitt
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Born in 1724 who built up vast plantations and slaveholdings in Santo Domingo. During the Seven Year's War he was sent to Spain to borrow money for France
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Laborde
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A system used in the 18th Century which was when a sizable investment of capital, acquired from crops, usually supplied from black slaves
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Plantation System
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A system where workers worked characteristically in their own cottages, employed as wage earners by merchant capitalists
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Domestic System
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Another name for Domestic Systems, where people workekd as merchant capitalists
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"Cottage Industries"
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The financial wizard of France in 1713, who was born and rasied in Scotland, and later founded a much-needed French central bank
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John Law
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The first prime minister and the architect of cabinet government who saved the companies that had been part of the South Sea bubble
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Walpole
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Cardinal in France who took office in 1726 at 73 years old and ruled until Louis XV came of age
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Fleury
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Hanoverian leader wo looked for support in 1715 in a strange country among the whigs, although he was extremely unpopular
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George I
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A "bubble" in France which broke out in 1720 and had important long-range effects
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Mississippi Bubble
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A "bubble" in England which broke out in 1720 and had important long-range effects
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South Sea Bubble
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Included in The Great War in the 18th century which was essentially between France and England over colonial economic competition and between Prussia and Austria over domination in Central Europe
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War of Jenkin's Ear
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The system where a leader can appoint others in charge of different responsibilities under his rule
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Cabinet System
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A government ruled by a system of Parliament which made the decisions for the country
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Parliamentary Government
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Stuart partisans who were strongly opposed by the Whigs loyal to George the I and attempted many rebellions
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Jacobites
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Also known as the II, who was 28 when he became king in 1740 in Prussia who revolted against his father by ruling the country how he wanted to
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Frederick the Great
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Daughter of Frederick which had the Pragmatic Sanction created so that she could inherit the throne
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Maria Theresa
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In 1756 who advanced British interest in India who fought in the battle of Plassey in 1757 who strove to rid of corrupt employees in the East India Trading Company
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Clive
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Frenchman who first started to exploit the possibilities of the changing situation in India
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Dupleix
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The struggle in Austria in the 1740s over the Habsburg inheritance
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The War of the Pragmatic Sanction
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War that began in America but was truly between the French and the English who attempted to partition Prussia
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The Seven Years' War
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War in America where the English and colonists fought against the French and Native Americans over American land
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The French and Indian Wars
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This term was used in America for the War of Austria Succession
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King George's War
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War fought between Prussia and Austria (1740-1748) where Frederick II of Prussia wanted to conquest Silesia
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War of Austria Succession
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Native Indians trained in Western military style
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"Sepoys"
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Battle fought in 1757, where the English, under Robert Clive, defeated the French with the help of "sepoys" and strong naval forces
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Battle of Plassey
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Actually a series of three wars between Prussia and Austria over control of Silesia
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Silesian Wars
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