HIST 1011 Lecture 23: The-World-in-1491
Document Summary
World history focuses on global development rather than history of the world. Most people were engaged in herding, fishing, agricultural industries primary sects. Kings and monarchs are agricultural parasites who live on agricultural surplus: more agricultural surplus less people needed to grow food. Peasants pay taxes to king, land owners, religious institutions. European monarchy: primogeniture oldest son to take throne. Islamic + chinese monarchy: monarch picks the son to succeed. Japan separated political and religious rules: when a state fails to organize violence in its state, it collapses. City-states of italy was not italy but on its way at this period. Economical (therefore political) power comes from controlling agricultural land (and money: most of the time in this period is that land > money. Upper class(cid:373)e(cid:374) co(cid:374)trol the la(cid:374)d a(cid:374)d the ki(cid:374)g co(cid:374)trols the upper class(cid:373)e(cid:374) a(cid:374)d (cid:373)ake sure they do(cid:374)"t usurp. In our world now the new is usually better.
