HIS109Y1 Lecture : Realignment of States, Classes, Economies
Document Summary
Europe had different boundaries and principles that would drive certain societies in certain directions. (english civil war) major influence. Creation of new states, states coming together because of a common hostility (spanish), fragmentation of old ones (kingdom of france, idiocy of the three sons) A violent continent; european tendency to solve fundamental issues with warfare. So profound, deep, essential to european society, when there had to be a conflict solved the war would have to be completely unspeakable. (long, large, 30 years war like) Outside forces were profound also, the shift of power away from the mediterranean (used to be the center of european civilization, around the mediterranean basin). Atlantic sea cost, new center of everything. Why was there a shift: rise of the renaissance. Trade, silk road: rise of the economic empires, things began to fall apart. Fall of constantinople to the ottoman turks. The turks were almost always victorious over the christians.
