Trade and Revival Across Europe

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Trade and Revival Across Europe
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EUROPE

• The Medieval Period 500 CE 1450 CE
• Characteristics?

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Medieval Europe

• Disunified
• Focus on religion
• Large majority rural
• Feudal Economic (manors) and Social (vassal-lord)
  Systems

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Magna Carta, 1215ENGLAND

• English Kings had the most difficulty
  centralizing control
• Great Charter
• Kings had to consult a council of advisors
  to tax
• Rights of nobles (lords)
• Limited kings power

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Sparks for Change

• Black death fewer workers, higher wages,
  breakdown of Feudal system, need for innovation
• Printing Press cheap books, spread of
  literacy, undermines church/priest authority
• Fall of Constantinople/Mongol Empires
• need for alternate routes to luxury goods

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• The Black Death- a fatal sickness
• that began its spread across
• Europe in 1347.
• Symptoms-swelling of the lymph
• nodes in both the armpits and groin.
• Heart would beat wildly, trying to pump blood
  through the swollen tissues in the infected body.
• The nervous system started to collapse, causing
  dreadful pain and bizarre movements of the arms
  and legs.
• As death neared, the mouth gaped open and the
  skin of the sick began to blacken, caused from
  internal bleeding.
• On the fifth day of being infected, death.

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Important Changes

• Increase in urban centers-towns Trading cities
  like Venice Hanseatic League cities along the
  Baltic
• Universities
• Technological innovations (water wheels,
  three-field system)

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Hanseatic League Cities
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Brugge, Modern Belgium, connects to the
Baltic Venice, Italy connects to the
Mediterranean
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Trade Diasporas

• As trade revived in Europe and intensified
  elsewhere, diasporic communities formed
• Diaspora to scatter
• Most famous example the Jewish Diaspora
• After a failed rebellion in about 100 CE, Jews
  were required to scatter from Jerusalem
• This migration formed huge networks of families
  and communities across the globe
• The natural result were networks of trade