01:510:317 Lecture 2: discussion 2
2 Feb 2017
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Outline: italy in mediterranean-european trade, trade and banking, trade and industry, commerce and society, literacy and numeracy, individualism, communal government, art, sea trade is easier than inland trade because of the chain of mountains going through. Venice and genoa in mediterranean trade: venetian colonies: adriatic coast, corfu, crete, cyprus (after 1849, genoese colony: chios (island near turkey, both: Some general effects: literacy: needed to read contracts, numeracy: arabic numerals (1200), double-entry bookkeeping (1340, individualism: advancing (or declining) through your own risk and effort. Thursday, january 26, 2017: the rst examples come from florence and they had their pro ts and debts in different books, double-entry bookkeeping is when they keep both on the same page. Republican governments: early stages (12th century: consuls or boni homines ( good men ) (4,8,13,23: often changed year to year, small council (24, 40, etc, large council (200, 400, 800, [arengo: all/most adult males]
