HIST 1010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Surplus Labour, Watt Steam Engine, Thomas Robert Malthus
18 Jan 2017
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State formation: west eurasia long-established states (e. g. france, central eurasia mongol overlordship ends in 1480; russia known as (cid:498)tatary(cid:499), reflecting long connection with central asian political dynamic. Origins: russian state coalesced beginning in the 1300s as mongol client state known as muscovy (mongols taxed them) Promoted moscow as (cid:498)third rome(cid:499) (cid:523)following the 1(cid:886)(cid:887)(cid:885) fall of: ivan iv ruled with great brutality (cid:523))van (cid:498)the terrible(cid:499)(cid:524) Despot (absolute ruler of a non-free people; emperor) the orthodox center constantinople to the turks: nobility (boyars) gather in 1613, chose mikhail romanov who begins rule in 1480. Peter the great, catherine the great: in the west, most peasants are free from feudal constraint in the post- plague period. Serfdom abolished in 1863: in russia, serfdom consolidated in the ulozhenie (law code) of 1649. Slavery was important 10% of population in 1638. Through the em (early medieval?) period, the ratio between births per 1000.
