HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Crop Rotation
12 Apr 2016
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A period of consolidation of the rights and privileges of urban communities. Nobility towns (there are new tensions in-between the noble and the town) Traditional model the three orders (a way of thinking about those in society: those who work (laborers/peasants, those who pray (church, those who fight (nobility) For those at the bottom of the hierarchy it was mainly to do with agriculture. Technological agriculture, there were water mills, heavier plows, and wheat grinders introduced. The population of europe is growing (it almost doubles by 1300 from 38m- Cons of this growth: deforestation, population is spreading into the wilderness from the islands, agricultural yields were very low. Change to the rural economy had a food surplus. Development of trade networks (belgium, english, scotland, france) The nobility have maintained the warrior identity. The nights gradually come to have social definition. The term chivalry came to designate a life style (core military values, through warfare it they stayed alive)
