HIST 249 Lecture 9: HIST249 Lecutre 9

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It almost immediately says that this is the rebirth of culture, learning, civilisation. The middle ages never called themselves the middle ages, they called themselves modern. The problem with the term middle ages is that it suggests this entire millennium is just a phase between antiquity and renaissance. The black death was a turning point in european history. 25-50% of the european population was wiped out really fast. Europe survived and rebounded quite fast after the black death but there were some important transformations. The renaissance had the plague too though, it stayed until the 18th century. The population did not rebound to the 13th century levels until the beginning of the 18th century. There was a rise of something called the middle class. If you survived the plague and had capital, you could set yourself as an independent farmer and maybe even rent out your own land.

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