The Changes in 1600-1700

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Today, we will learn about the livings of people from 1600 to 1700. This period is seemed very important to the world’s development. Unlike the world before 1600, human and things were changed very quickly and positively in this period. Hence, in this entry, we will discuss about those modifications in Almy family.

About livings:
Firstly, that is about life-span.
In 1500s, human’s life-span were short. One person can live averagely about 60 years, because the standard of living was still low and human did not know how to survive through the winters or diseases. Just like John Almy, he died when he was 51 years old because of starvation in the winter of 1550.

However, in 1600s, the livings of people were better. They knew how to make more food and better food by the Open-field system and the Agricultural Revolution.

Selective breeding

Crop rotation

In additional, [1] the increase in food supply in foods such as potatoes helped the population explosion because people can store potatoes during winnter. That is why the life-span of human was spread out and their lives were improved very much.

Next, that is about classes in society.
In 1500s, [2] common lands were worked by all the community. Everybody had the right to pick what they grew and poverty people could take what was left after harvest. 

[3] Throughout the Cottage Industry and Urban guilds in 1600s, the classes in society had changed. In this period, farms had fency and to have foods, tenants must pay to get them.

Mr. Christopher Almy got married with Clarke Thomas. Then, they worked for the landlord to have foods who was very powerful in that period, owned many pieces of land. Hence, landlords earned lots of profits from exchanging goods because labors were very cheap in this period.

However, European people did not work without paying, then millions of Africans was forced to migrate into Europe. As many as 20 millions Africans were transorted by ship. The amount of unpaid labour was increased sharply in Europe[4] . 

Finally, that is about the exploration of internal medicine.

Before 1600s, when someone die, people will barry them into the ground directly. This action coincidental caused the poluted to the environment and created deseases such as plague which took away nearly half of the world's population. And Mr and Mrs. Almy were who died because of plague in 1624[5][6] . Plague is really terrible because it spreads out extremely quick and there is no cure or vaccine to prevent or kill it.

So, to prevent the black death come back, people had invented autopsy, which is the method that removes viscera from the death bodies before buries them into the ground[7].
In this ways, it can prevent gem or virus go into the ground and protect human. That is why after 1600s, people live longer, healthier and stronger.

These are modifications  from 1600 to 1700 of Almy's family. Although, there are some negative actions but other inventions still support and improve our lives very good today. Thanks for all good things to make the world better. 
                                                                           ITEC Students_ Group 1

Sources for pictures:
+http://bjws.blogspot.com/2013/09/sharing-harvest-1500s-food-marketing.html
+http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_art
References:
+[1][2][3][4][7]History of Western Society, Volume 2: From the Age of Exploration to the Present. McKay, Hill, et al. Tenth Edition. ISBN-10: 0-312-64060-9
+[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
+[6]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_epidemics