Opening Day Notes
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When: 1350-1800 Early Modern Period
Begins w/ Black Death/ Renaissance
Luther, Gutenburg, Columbus
Ends w/ The Enlightenment
Robespierre & Napoleon
When: The Now and The New
Embraced by 18
th
C, Not 15
th
C
Also…Secularism, Nation States, & Capitalism
Slow Acceptance/Growth
Changes in
Religion
Political Authority
Vision of Globe
View of Humanity
COURSE OF CLASS
Renaissance
Discovery of Americas
Reformation
Scientific Revolutuion
Absolutism
Enlightenment
French revolution
End Game
Uniqueness of The Past
“The Past is a foreign Country, they do things differently there”
LEARN HOW HISTORY IS CREATED
Death of the Dark Ages/ The Medival Inheritance
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The Middle Ages
476-1350
High Middle Ages
900-1350
Inheritance
Balance
The Medival Inheritance
12
th
C Golden Age
Social Structure
Those who pray (CLERGY)
Those who fight (NOBLES)
Those who work (PEASANTS)
Agricultural Society
Power in Land
Medival Renaissances
Carolingian Ren. 8
th
-9
th
C
12
th
C Renaissance
Flourishing of Learning
Rediscovery of Aristotle
Centered in Courts
Stability
A Golden Age
Warming Trend
***3 Field Crop Rotation
New tools
New foods
Population (Estimated) 950AD 25 million, 1250AD 75 million
Little Disease
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The First Reformation
Gregory VII & Innocent III
Professional Clergy
Growing Religious Orders
Regulation of Society: Heresy
A persecuting society?
Separating groups of people (Segregation)
Religious Expansion
Crusades: 1095, 1147, 1187, 1202, 1217, 1228, 1248, 1270, 1271
Spanish Reconquista
John of Plano Caprino: 1245
William Rubruck: 1253
John of Montecorvino: 1275
Tries to convert Persia
Commercial Expansion
Urbanization
More Merchants
Many Were Jews and were questioned by society
1158 Hanseatic League
Northern Trading Group
Northern Italy (Center) Genoa & Venice
Out of the East
Good Times= Luxury Goods
Silk, Paper, Porcelain, and Spices
Spices: Food & Medicine
Silk Road: 1000-1300
***Marco Polo
Merchant Family
1271-1295
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Went on a trading adventure to the East
Becomes a Mongol Official [in Khan]
1298 captured by benois and writes “The Travels”
Dies in 1324
Clouds Loom
Trade Routes Blocked
Mongol Empire Fades
Rise of Islamic Powers
Little Ice Age
Contraction [of Golden Period]
Pressure of Lans
Stop Crop Rotation
Mono-Culture Wheat
Cold & Wet
Agrarian Crisis
Crop Failure: 1308-1320
Famine: 1304, 1305, 1309
1315-14 15% Die of Starvation
Animal Disease 1316-1325
Cattle/Sheep
Origins of Plague
Native to Asia: Gogi Desert
Downside to Trade
1330s hit China, by 1400 population drops 30%
1346 Caffa
1347 hits Italy
Understanding Plague
Yersina Pestis: Bacterial Strain
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Lives in Fleas
Preconditions
Right Weather, right Carriers
