HISTORY 21B Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Ecological Indicator, Protestant Reformation, Castration
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Attempts to crush protestant reformation in netherlands. William the first of orange leads dutch against spanish rule. Often understood as the beginning of state system. But really an exhaustion of universal empire . How do we determine whether a situation is a crisis . Increased mortality, disease, drop in birth rate. Collapse of regimes, invasions, wars, break up of states. The sense of a crisis, loss of cultural production. Breakdown of social structures, the family, education, rights. When all of these factors are observable, we can speak of a general crisis . Is climate change also a result of human activity. Between 1500 and 1870, some 12. 5 million people torn from their homes in. Many more may have perished without a trace. Peasants bound to work on lord"s land. Right to demand tribute and forced labor from the inidan inhabitants of an. A good deed to set slaves free. Could rise to the height of power.
