HIST 1004 Lecture : History 1004 Notes
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Topic 1: renaissance reformation and the old regime. Intro: technology, social development- appears in several characteristics of culture. Technology of info: begins with literacy itself; literacy is a technology that changes the way we think. Organization/urbanization: can you organize & maintain order within; effectiveness of administration; how big of an area can you maintain. Power projection/technology of warfare: technology is the great engine of social change/development, corollary- must be able to imagine and maintain it. The 1500"s: 1500- western europe was (compared to india & china) relatively poor; but it was similarly social (had slavery & serfs) Italy and the north: deep time- 1500 social structure of medieval europe; went back to. Octoi tax: the way the city financed their government until 1940; the tax itself was liberally ancient: also roman: the land use of europe. There were a lot of serfs: vecus- villages; the origins of all this had disappeared but the habits had not.
