The Historic Preservationist

With a proper understanding on how plagues spread, early individuals unknowingly helped propagate the pandemic.

At times the Black Death was used to weaponize the plagues, using dead victims to infect others.

Black Death can be triggered or comprised of various plagues .

Three major pandemics have rocked the globe, the Justinian Plague, The Black Death and The Bubonic Plague from China. Today modern travel makes plagues much easier to spread.

The first great plague since the fall of the Roman Empire, fleas carried it killing a third of Europe.

From women’s rights to a quickening of everyday society, the industrial revolution created the modern world as we know it today.

Almost every female adult and child capable would use a spinning wheel to produce thread and fabric and then cream clothing for the family and the colonial military at the time of the revolution.

Colonists learned what they could eat and drink as time went on, spices , many root vegetables, apples and pears, ale and hard cider

The native Americans schooled the early colonists down the coast how to grow, and what type of dishes to make with corn.

Early colonists arriving in the new world did not find riches in the earth such as metals, but riches of plenty food, roaming animals, nuts, tree sap, fields for crops and fish and shellfish in the sea and rivers.

This episode lays out the procedures of serving of meals, etiquette, accoutrements on the table and how all of this changed from the mid-16th - through the early twentieth century.

This episode describes colonial; hearths, cooking utensils, heating and an early romance of where the center of colonial life existed in the home’s interior.

From various forms of candle making materials, natural scents such as the Bayberry bush to accent candles, to oil and tallow, to various types of fire starters, night light in colonial times took time and skill to produce and was expensive.

Roof-lines and interior decorations proceed as the century went on.

From living in dug-out caves to thatched roof houses, early colonial settlers brought skill sets and certain styles from the home-lands.

The enlightenment solidified sound scientific methodology, peace between religions, separation between church and state, and a number of women who broke away from their domestic duties.

Somerville claimed out of traditional domestic roles in England, studying scientific experimentation she was the first woman accepted into the Royal Society.

Society had begun to realize that they had the capacity to engage in choices regarding the state and to enjoy personal liberties, which took the form philosophies of the enlightenment.

The American Enlightenment farther supported the concept of the country as a republic.

Paine created a pamphlet Common Sense which helped nudge the colonists toward the war of independence. He also warned later of religious fanaticism, claiming its basis , the Bible, was a book of many lies, wickedness blasphemy.

The Tea Party caused Britain to counter with the Intolerable acts, laws designed to to hurt Massachusetts self governance and freedoms.

Adam Smiths books and political relationships urged Europe into the modern capitalist era, based on the belief that independent businesses would provide not only for themselves but also for the rest of the population.

Religion in Scotland and England were undergoing massive changes while Hume concentrated on the great problems of the world and society. The society in which he lived was crumbling right around him.

Franklin taking much witnessed from other members of his family who were trades people, garnered a tenacious work ethic. He put this to use as a printer, made a considerable amount of wealth but never lost site of his ever increasing sense to help community, particularly the poor.

For Britains and other European countries whose segment of poverty who were down and out, a program of workhouses and social safety-net were set up in this early year of 1700.