MCKAY CHAPTER 20 Word Scramble
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blood sports | bullbaiting and cockfighting, sports that remained popular with the masses |
Carnival | a time of reveling and excess in Catholic and Mediterranean Europe. |
community controls | a pattern of cooperation and common action which was mobilized by perceived threats to the economic, social and moral stability of the closely knit community. |
extended family | a family that is a big, three- or four-generation clan, headed by a patriarch or perhaps a matriarch, and encompassing everyone form the youngest infant to the oldest grandparent |
illegitimacy explosion | the result of a break down of late marriages and few births out of wedlock that began occurring in the second half of the 18th century. |
infanticide | the willful destruction of newborn children. |
Jesuits | the Society of Jesus, they were extraordinary teachers, missionaries, and agents of the pope. |
just price | the belief that prices should be “fair,” protecting both the consumers and the producers and imposed by government decree if necessary. |
killing nurses | the name given the nurses with whom no child ever survived. Methodists – the name given to a Protestant religious group started by John Wesley, so named because of their methodical devotion |
Pietism | the name for the Protestant revival that began in Germany; it stressed enthusiasm, the priesthood of all believers, and the practical power of Christian rebirth in everyday affairs. |
purging | the practice of giving strong laxatives to the rich as a method of maintaining good health and treating illness. |
smallpox inoculation | the practice of vaccinating people so that they do not come down the smallpox. |
wet-nursing | a widespread and flourishing business in the 18th century where women would suckle the children of middle- to upper-class women’s children for money. |
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