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Trade, Towns, & Financial Revolution

Trade, Towns, & Financial Revolution. Chapter 14 Section 2. I Growing Food Supply. Euroipes great revival would be impossible without farming Warmer climates farming on lands once too cold to farmnew farming methods. A. Using horsepower.

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Trade, Towns, & Financial Revolution

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  1. Trade, Towns, & Financial Revolution Chapter 14 Section 2

  2. I Growing Food Supply • Euroipes great revival would be impossible without farming • Warmer climatesfarming on lands once too cold to farmnew farming methods

  3. A. Using horsepower • Ppl depended on Oxen to plow fields because they were easy to take care of • Began to use horses because they could plow 2x as much as oxen • Needed to develop new harness for horse to use for plowing • Developed harness that went around the chest horses replace oxen

  4. B. Three Field System Three Field System Two Field System • Villagers begin to organize farms diff.

  5. II Trade & Finance Expand • As agriculture expanded so did trade and finance

  6. A. Fairs & Trade • Most trade took plasce in towns in the form of fairs • Fairs brought peasants from nearby manors to buy goods needed for daily life • No longer were all goods produced ibn a self-sufficient manor

  7. B. The Guilds • Fairs were controlled bu guilds for each craft and trade • Guild= an association of ppl who worked in the same occupation • Guilds Controlled wages and price ogf their craft • Enforced standards of quality • Only masters could be guild members • Child apprentice(5-9 yrs.)journeyman(worked for wages) until the could make a Master Piece that met the guilds standardMaster

  8. II Urban Splendor RebornA. Trade and Towns Grow Together • Growing tradegrowing cities • Ppl began to challenge feudal system by leaving the manor • Illegal for serfs • Cities grew butunsanitary conditions • Towns under rule of feudal lords until burghers organized themselves • Burghers= town dwellers

  9. IV the Revival of Learning • Growth of trades & citiesrenewal in interest of learning • New European institution arose: the UINIVERSITY

  10. A. Scholars & Writers • University= anywhere a group of schalars met and discussed ideas • PEOPLE not building made up medieval universities • While most scholars studies latin some poets began to use vernacular • Vernacular= everyday language of their ghomeland • Dante Alighieri writes The Divine Comedy (Italian) • Geoffrey Chaucer writes The Canterbury Tales (English) • These writers brought lit. to the masses because many could not read or write latin

  11. B. The Muslim Connection • Crusades brought Europeans into contact with Muslims who had preserved Greek writings • Alexandrian Library • Crusaders learned and brought back superior Muslim technology, ships, navigation methods, & medicine

  12. C. Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy • Could Christian schalars use Aristolt’es logical approach to truth and still keep faith in the Bible? • Thomas Aquinas argues that most basin religious truths could be proved by logical argument • Summa Theologica= combines Greek thought w/ Christian thought • Scholastics= Aquinas and his followers • Their teachings on law and gov’t influenced the thinking of Europeans

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