HIST 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Radical Change, Green Brothers, Exchange Economy
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Outline: the orders wealth can mitigate your position basically divided all european societies: privileges for a few people and obligations for the vast majority. 2)life seen from the bottom of the ladder. 3)life seen from the top of the world. Important societies, the kingdom of england and france and spain in the west and in the east you have the russian empire and the polish and hasburg dominating the austrian empire and the ottoman empire. In the center, you have perliferation of political entities. After 30 year war, it is more religious homogenisagen, france usto have a lot of protestants but after the 30 year war it became more catholic and the same in spain. Dominant religions in many of the places, lutheranism in sweden. In most places, there could be subjects of different religions but they are minorities and always second rate. Ottoman empire=muslim political entity with many christians, also second rate subjects.