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    Lower orders in Northwestern Europe in this time period lived in extended agricultural families, had low life expectancies of around 30 years, and followed traditional gender roles where women worked as servants and men worked around the house. Children were seen as valuable sources of labor and had little education, often following their parents' occupations through arranged marriages at young ages. Agricultural techniques advanced through innovations like crop rotation and new crops to cope with growing populations and land shortages. The Industrial Revolution increased demand for goods and labor, utilizing the lower classes as unskilled workers in textile production and other industries.

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    Lower orders in Northwestern Europe in this time period lived in extended agricultural families, had low life expectancies of around 30 years, and followed traditional gender roles where women worked as servants and men worked around the house. Children were seen as valuable sources of labor and had little education, often following their parents' occupations through arranged marriages at young ages. Agricultural techniques advanced through innovations like crop rotation and new crops to cope with growing populations and land shortages. The Industrial Revolution increased demand for goods and labor, utilizing the lower classes as unskilled workers in textile production and other industries.

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    Lower orders in Northwestern Europe in this time period lived in extended agricultural families, had low life expectancies of around 30 years, and followed traditional gender roles where women worked as servants and men worked around the house. Children were seen as valuable sources of labor and had little education, often following their parents' occupations through arranged marriages at young ages. Agricultural techniques advanced through innovations like crop rotation and new crops to cope with growing populations and land shortages. The Industrial Revolution increased demand for goods and labor, utilizing the lower classes as unskilled workers in textile production and other industries.

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    Lower Orders of

    Northwestern
    Europe

    Eddie Mina, Ashka Sheth, Nanditha


    Lakshmanan, Kristi Kwok

    Family Life

    lived in full extended families (agrarian 2-4 gen)

    life expectancy was 30 years

    Love (17 years)

    Social mobility

    Unwed Mother rejection

    Follow your heart

    Land= wealth
    o

    (Britain)
    Nobility
    Gentry
    Yeoman

    Women worked as servants

    Men worked around the house


    o

    could leave home

    Children
    Children were essential & treated as adults (5-6)
    o Education < farming & business
    Followed the role of their parents
    Arranged marriages at a young age
    Crime
    o Increased crime in poorer classes
    o Tried as adults
    Care
    o Rich used wet nurses
    o the poor breastfeed
    premarital sex + illegitimate babies increased 20%
    o Infanticide (hospitals) -Edward

    Agricultural Techniques/Practices
    Growing populations+land
    shortages=need to find new
    agricultural methods
    Landlords attempt to modernize
    agricultural practicespeasant revolts
    New Crops=turnip+clover
    (Netherlands), corn+potatoes (France)
    New Innovations=iron plows, crop
    rotation, and animal breeding
    Convertible Husbandry=English policy
    that prevents wasteful land fallowing
    every 2-3 years

    Industrial Revolution
    Began in the late 18th century
    Increased demand for production of goods and
    services
    "Hallmark of modern society"/"hallmark of a
    nation's prosperity"
    Great Britian: Home of the Industrial Revolution,
    largest free trade area in Europe
    France: less workers, less resources, still more
    profitable than other European countries
    The Netherlands: very prosperous, compared to
    GB it was very late to receive some on the new
    technologies

    Industrial Revolution cont.


    Textile production was a massive part of
    the Ind. Revolution
    Peasants in the countryside were the
    "basic units of production"
    The Lower class: more work for the lower
    class--they became the unskilled labor
    force
    Women in the Industrial Revolution

    Primary Sources
    The Scullery Maid by Jean Baptiste
    Chardin in 1738
    This picture depicts a lower class
    or peasant woman cleaning in the
    kitchen.

    Primary Sources
    A pauper settlement at the St.
    Clement Danes Parish in London
    1776.
    Elizabeth Bridgens case with
    Christopher Plumely

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