HIST 1003 Chapter : 900 1300
Document Summary
Medieval warm period pop increase because more food. Growing season is longer birth rates go up. death rates down times were good. Spring and summer were very cold. much rain. church records and people thought they"d be okay because they had plenty of food. Birthrates down. death rates up people didn"t understand why. People- 80% (of everyone the further east you go, the higher the percentage goes) were peasants/farmers. 35 for female half of all children died before the age of 5. impossible to face challenges. Smaller animals, less food, less fertilizer, harder life they survived on bread (hachet bread) live in small huts no way to heat, slept with animals. Key words that indicate modern day: transportation and communication invention of the telegraph and railroad commercial activity- when people got married they signed peasants couldn"t write- 80% They were simply uneducated when it came to literacy. Forest filled with bad guys town wall- people inside.
