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Happy Friday!. Take out your GRRR Diversity and Interdependence Pick up a worksheet Have your Commercial Rev. packet from yesterday out in front of you. The Commercial Revolution. Improved Agricultural Techniques more food = increase population Trade increases New practices in business
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Happy Friday! Take out your GRRR Diversity and Interdependence Pick up a worksheet Have your Commercial Rev. packet from yesterday out in front of you
The Commercial Revolution • Improved Agricultural Techniques • more food = increase population • Trade increases • New practices in business • Guilds • Banking • Towns/Cities grow • Serfs leave the manor to learn a trade • Revival of Learning
The Black Death Mongols carried the infected fleas and rats into China From China the disease traveled on trade routes from Asia to Europe In 1347, merchant ships arrived in Italy carrying the bubonic plague on fleas and rats From Italy it followed trade routes throughout Europe Disease killed millions of people – about 1/3 the population of Europe
The Black Death Gallery Walk • Examine the images and documents around the room • Complete the questions on your worksheet • When you are done, complete the thought questions on the bottom of your paper
Thought Questions Had people known the cause of the bubonic plague, what might they have done to slow its spread? What diseases of today might be compared to the bubonic plague? Why? Why do epidemics like the plague have large impacts on societies and economies?
Effects of the Black Plague • Fewer people meant fewer workers = Peasants demanded wages or their freedom • Serfs left the manor • Church lost power