HIST110 Lecture : A Re-Awakening.docx
24 Feb 2013
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Trade was increased between towns, trade increasing all over europe to mediterranean, luxurious goods come from middle east exchanged grains/oils/metals. Natural disaster: black death: plagues struck europe in way never existed before, mid 14th century, 1/3 europeans died. Got involved in italian affairs, went against papacy. Italians divided into support emperor, other supported pope, pope able to convince political influences that they were better with papal interests. Over 3,000 states that claimed sovereignty by 1500, each owed loyalty to emperor. What would become german & italy became small states that no one had control of. In holy roman empire had 5 major dynasties that claimed to be rulers of holy roman empire: karl iv 1347-1378. Karl recognized he didn"t have a lot of authority. Formed first university in prague in 1438. Translated latin/german texts into czech, first time slavic language taken seriously.
