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| Bull baiting and cockfighting, sports that remained popular with the masses. |
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| A time of reveling and excess in Catholic and Mediterranean Europe. |
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| A patttern of cooperation and common action which was mobilized by percieved threats to the economic, social, and moral stability of the closely knit communit. |
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| A family that is a big, three or four generation clan, headed by a patriarch, or possibly a matriarch. |
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| The result of a break down of late marriages and few births out of wedlock that began occuring in the second half of the 18th century. |
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| Abortion of the 18th century. |
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| The Society of Jesus, they were extraordinary teachers, missionaries, and agents of the pope. |
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| The belief that prices should be "fair", protecting both the consumers and the producers and imposed by government decree if necessary. |
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| The name giving the nurses with whom no child ever survived. |
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| The name given to a Protestant group started by John Wesley, so named because of their methodical devotion. |
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| The name for the Protestant revival hat began in Germany; it stressed enthusiam, the priesthood of all believers. |
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| The practice of giving strong laxatives to the rich as a way of maintaing good health and treating illness. |
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| The practice of vaccinating people so they do not come down with the smallpox virus. |
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| 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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