Latin West, 1200-1500 Study Material -- Part 1

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The Latin West, 1200-1500 - Outline & Study Material of chapter 15, The Earth and Its Peoples -- Part 1Rural Growth and Crisis1200 and 1500 the Latin West brought more land under cultivationNine out of ten people lived in rural areasSuffered highly from famine and worked hard for meager wagesEpidemics, warefare, and social exploitation was caused in 1347-1351 by the plague known as the Black DeathPeasants, Population, and PlagueIn 1200 most people were serfs, obliged to till the soil on large estates owned by the nobility and the churchWomen and men worked the fields but there was no equality and among them women were viewed much higher than menThomas Aquinas (1227-1274) argued on the side of the church stating that women are lower than menRural poverty was bit simply the product of inefficient farming methods and social inequality but also resulted from rapid population growth.Believe that economy supported this growth or warmer than usual temperatures raised more crops produced the raise in populationThe three-field sustem was adopted rotational sustem, one field grew grain, one grew lagumes, and one lay fallow replaced the two field systemGerman migation to the Elbe River and into the eastern Baltic statesKnights belonging to Christian religion ordered native in habitants who had not yet adopted Christianity to be slaughtered. Such states included Prussia, Southern Europe, Celtic lands, British Isles, and also included Muslim and Byzantium landGreat famine occured between 1315-1317Black death is also present during this timeNot until 1500 did the population grow larger than before the plague.More coming soon.. subjects will be over social rebellion, mills and mines, learning, liturature, and the renaiisance, universities and scholarship, humanists and printers, Renaissance artists, political and military transofrmations, urban revival, civic life, monarchs, nobles, and the church, and the hundred year war.

[Saint_Michael 3]

cool to know a little history as always since I'm a history buff can't wait to read more.

[jlhaslip 4]

Is there a video or cd coming next??

[iGuest 3]

You made some mistakes when copying this down--first of all, it says it clearly in the book, page 352: "...Women were subordinate to men." 

You said: "women were viewed much higher than men"