How bad was life in Europe in 1817?   What was life like?
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Facts\nApril, Earthquake in Palermo, Italy \nApril,Princess Caraboo appears in Almondsbury in Gloucestershire, England \nAugust 23 , Earthquake near the site of the ancient Greek city of Helike. 65 deaths. \nElgin Marbles displayed in British Museum \nwho had Born\nFebruary ,King William III of the Netherlands \nFebruary ,Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician , \nMarch ,Clémentine of Orléans, daughter of King Louis-Philippe of France and mother of Tsar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria ,\nJune 30, Joseph Dalton Hooker,the botanist\nJuly 24 , Adolphe, Grand Duke of Luxembourg \nAugust 3 , Archduke Albert, Austrian\nAugust 24 , Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, Russian writer  \nNovember 3 , Leonard Jerome, the grandfather of Sir Winston Churchill \nNovember 30, Theodor Mommsen, German writer,\nWho had  Dead\nJuly 14 , Anne Louise Germaine de Staël, French writer \nJuly 18 , Jane Austen, English novelist
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http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/16801/effects_of_the_american_revolution.html\n\ngood luck!
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Look into how the bubonic plague outbreaks affected the economy in Europe. That is an excellent place to start.
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I'd go for Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1920
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Today there are old books on line because the copy wright has expired and many are being typed in a web site for all to read free. The farm as we know it was just emerging for the common man from life as a serf tied to the land owner. Many farmers in Europe were just allowed to use a piece of land. In New France some came out and claimed land just by marking it in an area protected by their soldiers. There is an amazing story of a French group being sold land on the  Ohio River that was totally undeveloped. The immigrants were all from down town Paris and were used to working one job for the aristocracy. When they had spent all their savings and traveled by ship and land to the river location they found huge trees and wonderful soil. Without proper tools they chopped tree after tree and then hollowed them out for a home. Animals and fish were obtained anyway they could. Gunpowder was there but scarce. The will to live away from the crazy Kings in Europe and the many wars allowed the spirit of the pioneers to be totally awesome. They stayed until a farm was made. The Louisiana French were taken by the English army and forced to beg among the New England colonies one winter . Life was never safe anywhere.
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Not just one year but childhood up to the age of 12.  Lived in a small Buckinghamshire village in the 1950's.  Didn't realise it then but we were cocooned in an idyllic carefree environment where we could roam freely with no worries and find out about life naturally.  We had rafts on the brook, learnt to swim in the pond, built trolleys from wood and old pram wheels, built tree houses.  We rode on farm tractors and trailers, made catapults, bows and arrows, pea shooters out of cow parsley.  Found out about relationships life and sex without magazines and Video's.  I was so lucky, it was another world but one I will never forget.
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Think positive!  The world isn't so bad.  The quality of life for the majority of the world is better than it has been at any point in history.  Sure there are problems but nothing is perfect and will never be, but let's just make the best of it and enjoy.
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Hope this is not too late\n\nIt's fascinating - went from an imperial government to republic, lots of corruption, then to communist, famine, cultural revolution, then a little bit capital with the opening of the economy, more corrupt, and now the country is pretty stable.\n\nMillions upon millions of people died, values changed, people became selfless (when the govt promoted a man called Lei Feng) and now adays it's every man for himself no matter what happens to everyone else.
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i believe the 'renassance', as you call it, which by the way is more appropriately spelled as Renaissance, was a sort of reawakening (around the 15th-16th century) of the (please correct me if i'm wrong) European people in terms of once again venturing out onto the world in search of cultural, artistic and intellectual knowledge. This was because the period before the Renaissance was actually the time when the Byzantine Empire(it was the capital of Rome)fell from power (because of the Turks), thus throwing Europe and all its scholars into a state of frenzy to survive because of the nature of the brutish and ruthless overthrowers, giving them rarely the time to think about anything less than living as far as tomorrow, much less...well, THINKING at all. But sometime after that, I believe a string of events I really cannot come to mind right now, occured, leading to the said era. By the way, Renaissance aactually means 'rebirth' in Italian, a very befitting name if i may say so. Hope I helped. :)
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?\nBlur - modern life is rubbish
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It is from my past knowledge and literature review to tell you that Im not completly sure. However I do have a educated answer considering my college background and many years of knowlege in the academic field. \n  One thing that you have to realize is that the events that are happening now are just different versions of what has happened in the past, with the exception of global warming which I will explain later. This meaning that you have to look back at thousands of years of history to see that bad things, just as they are happening now, happened then just different in forms. For exsample the "Black Death" that occured in the 1300's that struck with such lethal force and killed more people in Europe than both world wars combined!!! Nothing of that magnitude has happened since. And exsamples like this are evident throughout history. Realize how contemporary out lives are; and that things are maybe the worse they have ever been , but they are really the worse they have ever beeen in our lifetime. As for the global warming thing, that is a problem but the rising temperatures and sea levels are also due the the obital patterns our earth is going through. Don't get me wrong global warming is greatly our fault, but sometimes we need to sit back and realize that this earth has been here for millions of years and every generation before us as thought the same thing you have. What happens, will happen but maybe you can rest easier knowing we are not the only civilization who has thought this.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/lj/victorian_britainlj/index.shtml
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I'm currently reading a book called "United States of Europe" by T.R. Reid.  This book is thin and very easy to read even if you don't have a lot of interest in the subject.  It covers European attitudes about the new EU and about Americans in the preface and first chapter.  In fact the attitude of the citizens of Europe is the main focus of this book.\n\nIn general, Europeans, specially the younger generation are excited about the EU and feel themselves to be EU citizens.  The fact that political and economic borders have also disappeared creates a situation that people can live and work anywhere they choose.  \n\nI think it's great that you are looking into doing a paper on this as European unification will be marked as one of the greatest turning points in the history of mankind and we are alive at the time of its formation.  It's kind of like being there in the early days of Rome.\n\nI don't have any links, but the book I recommended is cheap to buy used from amazon and will answer many of your questions.\n\nGood luck.
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yes, i know alot about henvy VIII, like the previous answerer, i suggest you go and get a book and read all about it.\n\njust to get you started a bit...\n\nin henrys time people were often beheaded for minor crimes.\n\nsocial class difference includes things like eating roast swan and whole pigs for an evening meal for the upper classes and for the lower classes there was maybe some bread and whatever seasonal vegetable or game/meat was available.\n\nedward the 6th came after edward the 5th and was he the one who was really sickly?  or was that another one?.....you'll have to find out yourself dude!
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I like the first answer!\n\nHowever, I'll give in and give a bit more information.\n\nLook at Germany after WWI.  They were devastated, morally and economically.  They were supposed to pay gigantic reparations which realistically they could never pay.  Thus, they fell into a huge depression and were quite vulnerable to anyone who promised to "save" them.  A little wimpy untalented artist named hitler used incredible propaganda to bolster himself and his disgusting ideas.
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Gee, where do I start.  Let's see, corrupt government. Incompetent officials.  Brutal police force and military.  Deep religious divide.  Lack of accountability (I guess that goes with the corrupt government).  I would be surprised if it's NOT falling apart.  It has been failing apart for a good part of the past few centuries.
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I am European as well. Eastern Europe actually and such a statement makes me furious. Most of European countries have great history and really nice people.