• A seventeenth century family included all people living under the same Roof. ... • Since in the seventeenth century, police were non-existent, the family unit was an important agent of self-control at the village level. ... Family Trends • Marriage in the seventeenth century had three purposes. ... • The seventeenth century saw a flood of marriageable young women many of which would have spent their adult life in a nunnery. As a result, the number of woman who were married rose to 10% and then 25% by the end of the seventeenth century. ...

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The seventeenth century was a period of war and instability in Europe. ... The seventeenth century saw the decline of the French aristocracy's power and the retention of its privilege, whilst the English aristocracy, specifically the House of Commons in parliament, maintained its economic dominance and privileges. ... England's aristocrats showed a great arrogance during the seventeenth century due to the massive financial power they held. ... Throughout the seventeenth century the French aristocracy lost political influence and power while retaining its privileges, which consisted o...

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Ireland had never been simply "conquered" by England, though certain English or rather Anglo-Norman families had carved out estates there since the twelfth century. ... Ireland therefore by the close of the seventeenth century was a very mixed country. ...

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The following demonstrates that superstitious evidence was used to render a conviction in 1692, and that there is a major difference between seventeenth century British Law and the Law today. ... In a formal trial during the seventeenth century, the accused were not represented by lawyers but could question accusers and witnesses. ... English law of the seventeenth century was not as well developed as law is today. These days we might think the 1692 trials were unfair but the people of the seventeenth century would have looked at it as the norm in their society. ... The seventeenth centu...

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Discuss the positive and negative arguments in the use if indenture as a means of Scottish migration in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... There were many push and pull factors for indenting through migration: social, economic, political, and religious all had varying influences throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. ... The seventeenth century saw the beginning of the use of migration through indenture as a pawn in the game of national affairs. ... A lucrative trade grew up from the seventeenth and continued in to the eighteenth century of the transportation of beg...

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Everyday Life In Early America Philosopher Thomas Hobbes describes the lives of the average, seventeenth-century inhabitant of the British Isles and Northern Europe as "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short." ... Seventeenth-century English America was not fertile territory for Hobbesian "absolutism."" ... Instead, the seventeenth-century Americans were Independent, intrepid, and willing. The lives of seventeenth-century Americans were greatly affected by Independence. ... Seventeenth-century English America was in now way fertile territory for Hobbesian "absolutism."" ...

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During the seventeenth century, the attractions of cheap land encouraged children to move away from the homesite to try their fortunes elsewhere. ... Scattered settlements in the Chesapeake colonies during the seventeenth century created conditions that made it impossible for the skilled workman to practice his trade. ... In the seventeenth century, the transplanted Englishmen in America lived in a society whose social framework resembled what he had known at home. ...

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Thus the political struggles of the mid-eighteenth century reflect this. ... Thus the struggles of the seventeenth century were still fresh in the minds of the British, in England and in the American colonies. ... After the upheavals of the seventeenth century the British established liberty as the principal goal of its constitution. ... The late seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries saw many upheavals in England, which helped to shape the major ideologies that would eventually become the fuel of the Revolution. ... This set the pattern of unrest that would carry on for the remainde...

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William was a great English playwright, dramatist, and poet who lived during the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. ... Firstly, I will start reminding them, English in the sixteenth century still felt itself in the shadow of other European languages. England had to wait until the seventeenth century, 1604, to get its own dictionary. ... Local accent was noted at the end of the eighteenth century. ... What's more, for centuries the streets of London had developed their own street slang. ...

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local dialects there emerged toward the end of the fourteenth century a written language that in course of the fifteenth century won general recognition and has since become the recognized standard in speech and writing. ... The English language experienced a major upheaval in grammar followed by a stability for many centuries. ... The orthographical reformers of the seventeenth century were soon joined by grammarians. Aims at 'regularizing grammar' became more and more pronounced in the latter part of the seventeenth century and completly dominated grammatical thinking in the...

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During the seventeenth century there where many attempts to create the model society. The Puritans where one group that wanted to make a society based on their beliefs. The Puritans wanted to purify the church of England. They also wanted to build a purified society. One aspiration that really took...

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The New England colonies were a direct outgrowth of a renewal of religious conflict in England. The more intense Protestants, calling themselves the Puritans, demanded a simplification of the church and less control by the English church. The Puritans intended the Massachusetts Bay colony "to be a...

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The New England colonies were a direct outgrowth of a renewal of religious conflict in England. The more intense Protestants, calling themselves the Puritans, demanded a simplification of the church and less control by the English church. The Puritans intended the Massachusetts Bay colony "to be a...

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"To His Coy Mistress" is a seventeenth-century poem displaying a man's love for a nameless woman. The man is on a mission for the woman's virginity. Andrew Marvel's "To His Coy Mistress" has the persuasiveness of a sales representative. Sales representatives not only persuade customers with words bu...

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The Industrial Revolution is without a doubt, one of the most significant changes that has occurred in history. The Industrial Revolution began in England because of their large demand for coal and iron. And since they had a large supply of this, England soon began to have to produce vast amounts ac...

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In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England speech was so strict Parliament couldn't even debate the issues that they were to vote on. ... Over two hundred years later in England's thirteen colonies the Intolerable Acts, which restricted speech just as much as in the sixteenth century, were imposed. ...

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In sixteenth and early seventeenth century in England women's attractiveness were played by the "practical visibility and erotic half-concealment"(Korhonen 335). Therefore in England in sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries identity of ideal beautiful woman was considered by the dress, gesture and comportment that she was presenting and wearing. ... To posit "the phallic body" as the "true, enduring sex object of Western culture" in place of "any female version of beauty" is to radically alter the paradigms inherited from the eighteenth century. ... With all beauty industries raising ...

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France became the strongest and the most powerful state of the Europe at the end of 30-years war, but England remained the strongest naval state. England was a parliamentary monarchy where was not dominant absolutism as in France. They started to deal with overseas (United States of America). They t...

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By the seventeenth century, the Southern Colonies (Georgia, Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia), New England (Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire), and the Chesapeake region (Pennsylvania, New York, Delaware, and New Jersey) had already developed into three distinct societies who, despite coming from the same mother country and bearing similarities, functioned as three separate regions. ...

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Independence Day is the national holiday of the United States of America commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At the time of the signing the US consisted of 13 colonies under the rule of England's King George III. There was growing unrest in the colonies concerning the taxes that had to be paid to England. This was commonly referred to as "Taxation without Representation" as the colonists did not have any representation in the English Parliament and had no say in what went on. As the unr...

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