HIST 2003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Bartolomeu Dias, Sagas Of Icelanders, Pope Urban Ii
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History to 1877: january 19, 2018 (lecture 2) Ice age migrations- people slowly made their way down to the southern end of south. A lot of settlement and diversity- cities and empires (cahokia and the. Overall : the crusades: 11-13 century: religiously motivated wars where christians in. Europe would try and reclaim jerusalem from jews who were already living there. Pope urban ii quote: all who die by the way, whether by land or by sea, or in battle against the pagans, shall have immediate remission of sins. This i grant them through the power of god . Exposure to a lot of new things: spices, silk, porcelains, etc. Very high demand for these things and a very limited supply, mainly only available to the very wealthy: the renaissance: italy 14th century- it began to spread art, science, inventions. Leonardo divinci: war machines, horse driven: printing press: 1440- johann gutenberg- holy roman empire (germany)