Final Exam Terms #3: Miscellaneous (1700s and Britain)

For Professor Garmon's AMST 100 Final. Focuses on various terms in relation to British culture and other miscellaneous things from the 1700s.

Absolutism

Unquestioned rule.

Charles 1’s Execution

The King loses a civil war against Parliament, and is found guilty in trial and sentenced to death. He drags out the execution, and even in his own death he calls the shots. This is an example of absolutism.

Aristocracy

Government by the best; a type of class system.

Hierarchy

Fixed rankings in society that are very hard to change, based on class, not money.

Social Deference

The respect shown to social betters, where respect flows towards those of higher social standing.

Patronage

The duty that the upper class owes to the lower class, based on sympathy and acknowledgment of hard work. Thee only way to ascend the hierarchy.

Age of Enlightenment

The quest to survey all of the world’s knowledge, leading to more widespread knowledge.

Pompeii Excavation

Found new technologies like concrete, aqueducts, plentiful food, and brothels.