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hello it is elizabeth here and today i want to talk to you about social sciences five unit six

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lesson one so this is the first lesson that we are talking about today of unit six and it is about

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spain early modern spain to be precise okay so what happened in early modern spain

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the early modern age began with the discovery of america in 1492 and ended with the french

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revolution in 1789 all right so that's 1492 to 1789 all righty so agriculture was the main

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economic activity during this time but trade was growing because people started traveling

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all right society was split into three groups here we have the clergy the nobles and the commoners

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all righty so the nobles and the clergy had special privileges they had the power to govern

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and they didn't pay taxes commoners had no special privileges does that seem fair

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already commoners who lived in cities were merchants doctors artisans or shopkeepers

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the commoners who lived in the countryside usually worked on the farm and sometimes they

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even lived in terrible conditions so if you go to your book on page 21 of your social sciences

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five book you'll find a fun little time fact which i want to talk about today and the time fact says

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that there were many advances in medicine in the early modern age. So for example, one of these

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was leeches to cure a fever. So nowadays we don't use leeches to cure a fever, but we still do use

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leeches in medicine. All right, so now let's do a quick review of the vocabulary that we talked

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about today. We have agriculture, trade, traveling, privileges, and conditions.

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All right, I will see you next time. Have a great day!