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a dialect or peasant language. This was their way of talking in French since most people didn't get good education and therefore continued to speak as before.
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patois
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a dialect or peasant language in German. This was because a majority of the people didn't get a good education and therefore spoke as they did before. This language was different from those of the elite class.
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volkssprache
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means "farewell to meat" where the Christians were to abstain during the 40-day Lenten fast. The Carnival went on for several weeks preceding Lent, and it was a big time for eating and heavy drinking. It was a time for defying custom and ridiculing authority.
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Carnival
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Thomas Pitt, son of a parish clergyman in the Church of England. Operated as an interloper and traded in defiance to the legal monopoly of the East India Company. He bought a diamond and eventually sold it for much more money than he purchased.
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"Diamond" Pitt
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He built up many plantations and slave holdings in Santo Domingo. One of the leading bankers in Paris. He was sent by the French govt to borrow money in Spain, and worked in the war of American Independence.
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Laborde
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An economic unit consisting of a considerable tract of land, a sizeable investment of capital, often owned by absentees in France or England, and a force of impressed labor, supplied by nlack workers.
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plantation system
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People working in their own cottages as wage earners by merchant capitalists under this system. Many dealt with agricultural goods.
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domestic system
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Otherwise known as the domestic system. This is where people make goods or products in their own home, and have a merchant capitalist to collect everything.
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"cottage industries"
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The financial wizard of France, was a Scot, won many commercial advantages for England and gave them access to the British empire.
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Law
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Statesman in England, whose policy was to keep peace abroad and conciliate all interests at home. He came to power after the bubble broke in 1720. He kept out of controversies and had been called the first prime minister and the architect of the cabinet government.
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Walpole
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Cardinal in France who was a statesman whose policy was to keep peace abroad and conciliate all interests at home. He held office for about 2 decades.
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Fleury
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Elector of Hanover, Protestant, who became king of England. During his reign Parliament gained considerable independence from the crown.
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George I
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In France, they were able to maximize their resources through banking and credit even to finance the alliance. There was private demand for both lending and borrowing money.
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Mississippi bubble
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The thing as the Mississippi bubble except in England. Everyone was looking for capital at the time.
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South Sea bubble
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In the 1730s there were constant complaints of indignities suffered by Britons on the Spanish Main. The war produced a Captain Jenkins, who carried with him a withered ear, which he said he had been cut from his head by the outrageous Spainards. He stirred up a commotion which led to war.
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War of Jenkin's Ear
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A system in which the prime minister and the ministers who head the cabinet departments are also members of the legislative body.
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cabinet system
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Partisans for James who was son of the late King James. They claimed that he had a divine right to the monarchy and regarded him as "James III". They felt that if he would give up his Catholic religion, he should be accepted as Britain's rightful king.
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Jacobites
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Made the idea of a national debt possible in England, because the Parliament could determine the policies of the state, decide what the money should be spent for, and levy enough taxes to maintain confidence in the debt.
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parliamentary government
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King of Prussia who decided to conquer Silesia, which went against the Pragmatic Sanction. This began a series of battles because of this.
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Frederick the Great
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New heiress of the Austrian Habsburgs. The Pragmatic Sanction had stated that she would inherit all domains of the empire would be inherited by her integrally. She was one of the most capable rulers of the empire.
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Maria Theresa
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He mainly advanced British interests in India. He was a clerk for the East India Company but had an ability to comprehend Indian politics. He saved many at the Battle of Plassey where he saved people from the "Black Hole of Calcutta". He helped the British to win over for French for ambitions in the East.
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Clive
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Frenchman who was the first European to exploit the possibilities of the changing situation in the mid 18th century India. He believed that the funds sent out by the company in Paris to finance the Indian trade was insufficient. His idea was to make the company into a local territorial power to get more capital. He created the first "sepoys".
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Dupleix
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The War of Austrian Succession was also known as this because the struggle of the Habsburg inheritance was all because the Pragmatic Sanction had been previously signed by Frederick the Great saying the Austrains could have Silesia.
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The War of the Pragmatic Sanction
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A long dispute between the French and British. It started in the colonies but moved to Europe and was a war of partition. The stakes were the supremecy in the growing world economy, control of the colonies, and command of the sea.
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the Seven Years' War
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Same as the 7 yrs. War, the British and French both wanted to have influence in Indian trade and became a worldwide competition between B and F interests, and the growing importance of India in the global economic system.
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the French and Indian Wars
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Started in America, the French had more territory and the British had more people. The colonies adopted the Albany Plan of Union to combat this.
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King George's War
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Started by Frederick the Great, when he invaved Silesia even though the Pragmatic Sanction said that land was reserved for the new heiress of the Austrian Habsburgs. In the end the Habsburg empire stood strong but lost Silesia.
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War of Austrian Succession
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Indian troops who served in the military forces of the European companies. Started by Dupleix.
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"Sepoys"
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When Clive came into Calcutta with a small force of British and sepoys. He fought off Dowla, who shut off the city from all outsiders and during the "Black Hole of Calcutta " many suffocated.
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Battle of Plassey
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The War of Austrian Succession was also known as this because the war was fought over the issue if Frederick the Great could take over this land or whether it belonged to the Austrian Habsburgs.
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Silesian Wars
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