HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Spanish Armada, Palace Of Versailles, Spanish Empire
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British isles (26 mile wide english channel) In 1500, europe had 1/10th of the people it has today. Church is the center of the european village. Concept of different kinds of worship was completely foreign. Most people are peasants (live in the country and do agriculture) 1 in 10 women die during childbirth. Prayer was the one remedy people had to avoid disaster. Most people believed that the earth was the center. Out of from it came moon, sun, and planets and then starts and then god. Furthest place from god was the molten hell. Gentry (no title but does not work) Family: father, mother, male children, female children (everything goes to the boys) Laborers (sleeps in barn) (work for yeoman or husbandmen) Five things: better to be higher than lower (the higher you are the closer you are to. To try and change will be disrespectful and disobedient. Movements did not always fit chain of being.
