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High Middle Ages 1000-1300CE Chapter 8.4

• Agricultural Revolution
• Commercial Revolution

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New Technologies

• Iron Plough
• Horse harness instead of oxen harness

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New Technologies Cont.

• Windmill grinding flour
• Three-field system grain, legumes unplanted

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Result of Agricultural Revolution

• Outcome Increased food production led to an
  increase in population. Population doubled
  between 1000-1300 CE.

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The Need for Products

• The WEALTHY growing population needed goods not
  available on the manor.
• Trade was mostly REGIONAL but some contact with
  Middle East, India, China.

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Products of Trade

• Imported
• Spices, groceries, linen
• Egyptian paper, pearls, perfumes
• Exported
• precious metals in bars
• iron, wines, oil, and wax
• England exchanged wool

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Revival of Trade

• Trade Fairs
• People, communities and countries begin to trade
  again at a higher rate.
• Cities of trade, learning culture emerge

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Commercial Revolution BankingNew Business
practices

• Increased use of money, credit and insurance.
• Lending capital spurred the growth of banking
• Undermined feudalism gt Middle Class of
  merchants, traders and artisans, many were Jewish
  because they could lend money with interest and
  not be viewed as immoral by the Christian Church.

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Social Changes

• A New Hierarchy
• Merchants, traders and artisans become the new
  Middle Class.
• Peasants were still at the bottom.
• Nobles remained at the top.

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Role of Guilds

• Guild - Organization of people with a common
  artisan.
• Levied taxes for streets, city walls, new town
  halls, etc..

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City Life

• With population growth comes city life
• Sanitation issues -gt Stinky
• Crowded
• Narrow Streets
• Tall buildings
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vF9_ZcR0KoK8