HIS230H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Patron Saint, Germ Theory Of Disease, Alexandre Yersin
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Dendrochronology: study of tree through their rings. When the climate changed it heavily affected farmers, a small climate change can ruin crops. Soils were losing their fertility after intensive farming. War turned a production crisis into a distribution crisis. During the great famine 10-15% of the population died. Some people sold land, some people migrated, but the population was weakened as a whole. She broke an english siege and restored french morale. After being captured after a bad siege and tried by the english. The legal reason she was tried for was wearing male clothing, even in prison. In short, the infantry revolution is used to describe when archers and pike men are able to cause heavy casualties to calvary. This change who was on the battlefield, and who should be on the battlefield. Warriors were the aristocracy in europe, and were responsible for war. Pikemen and archers were from the lower classes.
