HIS 1120 Lecture Notes - Hanseatic League, Low Countries, Renaissance Humanism

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: History
• Course: HIS 1120
• Professor: Hernan Tesler- Mabe

Document Summary

Then: over 1500 royal lands and kingdoms and politically fragmented. Crown of castille and crown of aragon---became spain. Compromise between rome and catholic church in western europe and germanic countries. An evolution of a compromise between the pope and charlemagne. Holy roman emperor; elected by many people (germanic countries elect) Europe is largely christian (either catholic or orthodox) Catholic church controls western europe. (eastern europe is orthodox) Orthodox; does not use latin; uses slavonic languages. Vikings had been to greenland; had not been back to europe or asia. Knew world was not flat. (or else columbus would not have set out on his voyage) Mid 14th century; reduced between 1/3 and due to bubonic plague. Tf clears up space for developments of cultures. France: the most populous (16 million people and paris was over 100 thousand) 80-90% of the population is peasants (6% lives in the big cities; richer upper class) New growth in 15th century; increases in trade.