GEO 108 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Interchangeable Parts, Comparative Advantage, Copernican Revolution
7 Nov 2012
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A stable system (lasted 1000 years) sometimes referred to as the middle. Eurocentric view not everywhere was dark during the dark ages: characteristic institutions. The church was the predominant political/ideological institution in europe. No major distinction between private and public property: characteristic spatial and social organization. Ruling class: aristocratic nobility whose power lay in ownership of land. People were serfs and were bound to the land, limited mobility. Farming hamlets and cities were small: characteristic economic/production organization. Agriculture was organized around the rhythms of the seasons. Guilds were common in the cities to produce goods. Figure 2. 4 the pre-capitalist world of the fourteenth century: stretching from europe to the middle east formed one network embedded in a broader system. End of feudalism: eleventh century gradual agricultural revolution based on the heavy plow, waterwheels, etc, expansion of the international trade system centered around damascus and.
