01:512:104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Caravel, Crop Rotation, Feudalism

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16 May 2018

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Chapter 02 - When Worlds Collide

Early Settlements

• L'ans aux Meadeaux

• Columbus in 1492

European Communities

• Agricultural society

• Late technology boom = more food = more people

• Iron plows

• Crop rotation

• Feudalism

• Catholic Church was powerful

• Jew became successful merchants

The Merchant Class

• Genoa, Pisa and Venice became powerful

• Rich

• Fleets

• Financed crusades

Renaissance

The New Monarchies

• Replace lords as center of power

• Built royal bureaucracies

• Had state navies and armies

• Support from merchants

Portuguese Explorations

• Henry the Navigator = Sagres Point (Naval College)= developed the

Caravel

• Knew the world was round

• Easter influences at Sagres Point

• Vasco da Gama-rounded Cape of Good Hope = India and China

• Established slave trade

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