18th Century Social Life

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18th Century Social Life
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Population

• 1700 120 million
• 1750 140 million
• 1790 190 million
• Why such an increase?

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Reasons for population increase

• Increase of food supply
• Better diet
• End of outbreaks of bubonic plague

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The family institution

• Patriarchal
• Arranged marriages
• Childhood began to be seen as a stage of
  development

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Children

• Childrens clothes became a new concept
• Infanticide still an issue for poor families
• Foundling homes
• 50 to 90 mortality rate

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Toys, fun, games

• Jigsaw puzzles!

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Marriage

• Average age 28 years old
• Lived in nuclear families
• Avg. 5 children
• EXCEPT for aristocracy

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Agricultural life

• Alfalfa
• Turnips
• Clover

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Agricultural life

• Increased livestock
• Greater harvests with vegetables, potato, maize

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Peasantry

• 85 European population
• Required to tithe to parish
• No rights flour mills, hunting, etc.

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Peasant Food

• Dark bread, rye
• Water, wine, beer

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Noble Life

• 3 population
• Top of the social hierarchy

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Noble life The Good Life

• Exempt from taxes
• More abundance of food
• Lived off labor of others

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