History 1803E Lecture 8: Lecture 8 - History 1803E
14 Nov 2011
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Robert lopez: the commerical revolution of the middle ages: It changed the view on the middle ages: Commercial revolution in middle ages: increases in agriculture, manufacturing, and trade ; innovations in business organization and finance. Severe economic decline in the late middle ages, 14th and 15th centuries due to varies disasters. Recently, historians have been revising lopez"s statements of late middle ages. They say that it does not constitute a long period of depression but series of ups and downs. Mideval business would survive them, adapt to them: climatic change. Beginning in the late 13 c, beginning of the little ice age. This colder climate would last for the next 500 years. In some years, serious droughts occur, in other years there would be deadly rainfalls. It became so cold that the entrie baltic ocean froze entirely 3 times. Growing seasons shortened and bad harvest were more frequent, this became serious in t he 14th century.
