unit bubbles and stuff

elite

minority within a given range of interests (rich people)

carnival

festivle usaly aound lent attend by all for a time then later only the popular

popular culture

what most people blieved and participated in

the world turned upside down

during carnival people changed and flipped things like women wears men's clothes

east india companies

most failed but they traded with asia for profit

plantation economy

planttion in the indies mostly sugar run by slaves

duke or orleans

regent of louis XV(16th) was disliked and parliament and nobles gain more power

whigs

govnment didnt wan the stuart's to return

Tories

with the shots started to wan the stuart's back on the thrown supported the pretender king

queen anne

last ranking stuart who died

james III

"the pretender" some thought he should be kind tired to be and failed

john law

tried to bring france back finically creat bank and eventually fled to belgium

mississippi bubble

when the stock of the mississippi company collapsed

the fifteeen

the revolt of those who supported james III

the forty five

when the young pretender tried to get the throne

south sea bubble

when the stocks of the south sea companie collapsed

cardinal fleury

took over after role as didn't care much about future

george I

rule of england german didn't do much

robert walpole

finically minister of england stated cabinet first prime minister

bubble act

forbid all combines except government to sell stock

war of jenkins ear

war agents what was happing to brit's in spanish america lumped together with the 7 years war and the war of austrian succession

maria theresa

inherited the austrian thrown and everyone typed to talk it over was actually good and got her husband elected to be holy roman empire and was a good leader

count kunitz

foreign minister of maria theresa proposed an alliance between franc and austria to help against prussia to marry of one of her daurgthters (marie antoinette) to louis XI

pragmatic sanction

said no one would attack austria when charles VI died

treaty of aix la chappell

treaty in 1748 ended the fighting for a little bit made everything go back to what it was before except prussia kept silesia

diplomatic revolution of 1756

the reversal of alliance france with austria england with purssia

william pitt

led the british in the colonies military

peace of hubertusbug

between austria and prussia said frederick got to keep silesia

robert clive

advanced briths intrests in india

frech and indian wars

wars in north american enalgnd fought them and won

treaty of paris 1763

end the fight in and made france give up the americas but keep the caribbean