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Paris: Filthy Cities
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Medieval Paris was | overcrowded |
| Medieval Parisians | lived in filthy conditions |
| There was no | running water |
| The river was polluted by | the waste of industries like "tanning" |
| Toilets hadn't been invented so | people urinated in pots at home or in the streets |
| Due to the overcrowded conditions and poor living conditions | disease was rife |
| Life expectancy | was short |
| 1 in 4 | babies died |
| The King built | a ring road around the city to avoid having to drive through it |
| King Louis commissioned | a national survey to gain the opinions of his subjects (people) |
| The survey took | a considerable amount of time |
| 25,000 | books contain the responses to the survey |
| Having spent so much money on wars | the King did not have the funds to do anything about the concerns raised in the survey |
| A volcano eruption in Iceland | led to the failure of the wheat crops across Europe |
| Starvation was a | worry for many French people at the time |
| Poverty, desperation and exploitation by the rich | made the poor people question authority and the Revolution began |
| The 14th of July | marks the start of the Revolution |
| The 14th of July is | celebrated every year in France |
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