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Hi I’m John Green and this is Crash Course
European History.

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Last time, we looked at how the monarchs did--and
didn’t--incorporate the ideas of the Enlightenment

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into their domestic policies.

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Today, we’ll look outward to how the 18th
century European powers engaged with each

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other and beyond Europe--which is to say that
warfare is coming.

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Or, continuing, I suppose, because it never
really left town.

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[Intro]
So, population was rising in 18th century

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Europe and despite an extremely uneven distribution
of wealth and lots of wartime casualties,

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many people were leading better lives.

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For example, inventories of French people’s
possessions show that in 1700 women owned

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an average of two garments generally in solid
black or brown;

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in 1800 that number was five garments of more
varied, even bright colors.

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Now, this may seem like minor progress, but
here’s another way of thinking about it: