HIST1055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Pathogenic Bacteria, Black Death, Feudalism
Document Summary
Christopher columbus arrives in spain: right place, right time. Maps, boundaries, and the ordering of the early modern world. Started in southwest china in early 1300s. Bacterial disease spread by fleas and rats. Spread all over the world as result of major eurasian trade routes. Chinese/european populations both drop by about between early. Recovery begins with establishment of small, local, political boundary units built around land. Most people are working on the land. Pay fees to local lords and church. Identity is developing - it was local, identified with your village/farm/fields not your country or larger ruling figure, everyone was the same religion. Educated people have a great deal vested in hierarchy and order. At that time jerusalem was thought to be center of the world so every map surrounded/went off that idea. Maps had to agree with bible and be properly depicted. Each part of the world was populated by the correct/corresponding son of.
