SMC103Y1 Lecture Notes - Medieval Warm Period, Horse Collar, Iberian Peninsula
16 Nov 2012
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Class or tutorial next week fall break. **reading quiz 8 opens next tuesday, not today. 18000 people (75% drop: change in location played a part, 95% of the population living in the countryside de-urbanization. Wealthy people, move to countryside to avoid taxation. There"s a safety in the countryside city is dangerous, often the target of migratory hostile groups. Renewal of urbanization: new kind of political stability by 1000 ad, stable german monarchies (ottonians), increasingly stabilizing power in. Frankish kingdoms (capetians), normans in england ~ peacefulness. External threats domesticated: magyars quelled by otto, christianized, vikings settled in normandy, islamic forces contained by smaller monarchies in the iberian peninsula. Allowed roman empire to flourish grow food longer and more extensively. Shift in climate that coincided with the falling temperature, reason for barbarian migration south (500-900 ad) big drop in population of europe.
