1. In the 17th century, population of Europe grew slowly but a cyclical pattern started to grow that had a great influence on the social and economic life. On factor that put down the population was the Black Death which created a sharp drop in the population and also created labor shortage throughout Europe. Also deaths started increasing in the 17th century such as famine, epidemic disease, and war caused huge drops in the population, or slows the population rate.…
During the 15th century, European nations began to send explorers throughout the world; these explorers helped create new trade routes, which greatly affected Europe’s prosperity and the interactions between European countries. The Europeans influenced other countries and cultures by establishing trading stations, creating colonies, imposing their ideas upon various native people, and introducing new diseases, and non-European cultures also changed European trade, social life, and ideas. European nations created a global trading system that changed the food cultures of a multitude of countries, and scholars in Europe began to describe and analyze the different people, cultures, and places that Europeans encountered. Demand for a workforce…
The development of a billing system was made and people instead of trading were also now buying. This had a big Impact on their growth because as they got richer the more power they have. This was a big push to becoming a big civilization…
The economy was at its all-time low when the plague struck Europe. Europeans were dying which caused a production decrease and led to a decline in money for both workers and owners. Elizabeth Ellis and Anthony Esler, discuss the plague that occurred in the 1300s when the European economy sank to a horrible decline, how difficult goods were to make, the rise of goods were more costly than ever before, and how trade became horrible as well(Doc 4). Not only did these problems effect people but it effected the economy and price of goods. This wasn’t the only effect the black plague had on medieval Europe it was just one of the many effects.…
606). Transferring parts of community prevented rebellions because they were unfamiliar with their surroundings and relied on the empire’s institution. Whereas in Europe this was not practiced because of the many established states (Strayer 13.2 map pg. 579). Consequently, the states in Europe were not large enough to have effective relocations, and the frequency of major wars made countries prioritize other…
Due to this lack of supplies, the mortality rate further increased, especially with the sharp rise of deaths related to the Plague of Justinian. In a shocking contrast, the luxurious Byzantine Empire disintegrated into a terribly impoverished state. Likewise, the brutal conditions of the plague forced the economy into abrupt and extreme inflation during the Black Death. Due to the difficulty and danger of procuring goods through trade for production, the prices of both goods produced locally and those imported from other lands increased…
The four factors that played a role in the economic boom in the 12th and 13th century were as follows: agricultural revolution, expansion of cities, advances in transportation networks and the creation of new business techniques. The agricultural revolution came with some advantages and disadvantage. One advantage of the agricultural revolution is that it allowed the control of food because if you grow and produce it than you have a better chance of not starving and a disadvantage to the revolution is that in order to maintain your production and continue to feed people than you literally have to change the environment and we all know that is not an easy task. Agricultural revolution basically provided people the opportunity to eat more which…
The bubonic plague made its way into European ports from Asian ships infested with rats carrying the disease. The sickness swept across Europe, leaving devastation in its wake. The ruin that the Black Death caused led to many consequences. Socially and economically, villages vanished. Laborers decreased as the population decreased, so the number of farms declined.…
The First Contact had a huge impact on individuals during the time trade was taking place. This proved that although huge revolutions were taking place, not everything had a positive outcome. The diseases that followed, such as the bubonic plague, caused disasters within communities and weakened societies. The death toll increased further with slavery when people discovered cheap (or free) labor meant more profit and a better income. This was connected to the silk road and and mass producing products.…
It was so overcrowded that feeding people became hard. In the years 1200’ s-1300 a large famine brought weakness to the large population of Europe. Then the Black Plague weakened the population by half. An example would be if one person with the Pneumatic plague would cough once in a market, and then 20 people would catch the plague and so on and so fourth. The weather helped spread this disease as well.…
Summary of Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley’s work Urban Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the Early Modern Period Sir Edward Anthony Wrigley is a well-known British demographer, who, in his paper Urban Growth and Agricultural Change: England and the Continent in the Early Modern Period, links changes in urban population to rising income per capita and agricultural productivity in economies before industrialization. In order to understand this relationship, we need to first follow Wrigley in describing how urban population changed over several centuries in England and how these changes were related to changes in real income. We need to first consider the 16th century. Between 1520 and 1600, when England experienced a…
There began to be moral decay in the faith of the citizens of Rome. They lost their trust for the military to provide protection, as they should, and the citizens turned to local landlords for defense. The citizens gave their farmland to their lords and agreed to work the land in exchange for safety and security. This was a stepping stone towards Feudalism in Medieval Europe. Alternatively in Han China the local landlords took control by force.…
However, with the extreme loss of life there was an accumulation of goods, a decrease in their price, a surplus of jobs and consequently a rise in wages. The standard of living actually increased. Also the need for paid workers resulted in movement away from feudalism and the development of a working class. All of these events paved the way for the coming Renaissance. Even though the Black Plague changed the world forever and is one of the most horrifying epidemics in world history, it was not all bad for the Roman Catholic Church, which is what most people believe was hit the hardest.…
First off, the trading of goods which caused an increase in population. An example of this is Quanzhou. For example, as shown by the text, “Population expanded Rapidly,” (History Blueprint). With the expansion of population there…
After reading The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History by Alan Brinkley, black men, women and immigrants begin to migrant to American cities. They were trying to escape from the violence, persecution, poverty and debt they faced. Some were even trying to come to America where they knew indentured servants was illegal. I believe the factor that contributed to the increase growth of American cities was industrialization. Industrialization made it easier for people to travel and cheaper in result of the innovative creations of the railroad and steamships.…