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

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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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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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Important Changes

• Increase in urban centers (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