HIST 1003 Lecture : 1500s Notes
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1453, 1492, 1448; europe"s new horizons: spaniards- gold & silver from the new world---buy chinese goods, europe has a very moderate climate- good growing seasons. Local: they lived in local societies (stayed in their areas: south: fish, olives, sheep, beans . North: cattle, pigs, furs, vegetables: expensive to transport goods & bad roads/waterways/tax collectors- stayed in their areas. Women important- shops manufacturer: christianity: pessimistic form; mostly carried out by rituals & practices. Everyone else had no privileges journeyman: groups of common laborers grouped themselves together to monopolize a certain trade. Given gov"t authority to only sell what is in their guild: black death- waning of high middle ages, little ice ages, & bubonic plague. 1500s were a period of change esp. in italy: reduced supply of labor for the next generation, it cleaned out" europe- more opportunities, barbaros= what greeks called those who didn"t speak greek-barbarians- Priest, nuns, monks: a lived religion: ( either catholic or heretic)
