HST 101 Lecture : 14 - The Latin West, 1200 - 1500.doc
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In 1200 c. e. most europeans were peasants, bound to the land in serfdom and using inefficient agricultural practices. Fifteen to thirty such heavily taxed farming families supported each noble household: women labored in the fields with men but were subordinate to them, europe"s population more than doubled between 1000 and 1445. Population growth was accompanied by new agricultural technologies in northern europe, including the vthree-field system and the cultivation of oats: as population grew, people opened new land for cultivation, including land with poor soil and poor growing conditions. This caused a decline in average crop yields beginning around 1250. The black death and social change: the population pressure was eased by the black death (bubonic plague), which was brought from kaffa to italy and southern france in 1346. The plague ravaged europe for two years and returned periodically in the late 1300s and.
