Europe Before 1500

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Europe Before 1500
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I. Middle Ages

• Feudalism
• Nobles
• Kings gave power to rule regions
• Gave knights land in exchange for service
• Peasants
• Did not own land
• Grew crops on kings land
• Some food would go to king, queen, etc

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I. Middle Ages (cont.)

• The Crusades
• Series of Wars
• Christians called to push Muslims out of Europe
  and Palestine
• Numerous crusades happened in the early 1000s
• Impact
• Increased trade between Europe and Asia
• Exchange of ideas
• Food rice and apricots
• Cotton cloth
• Academics algebra

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II. Renaissance

• Focused on human values over religion -
  humanities
• Artists Michelangelo, da Vinci
• Science astronomy, map making
• Printing Press
• Developed by Johannes Gutenberg
• Could now print books quicker, easier