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Unit Four Notes Outline
Unit Four Notes Outline
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Urban Revival
A. Trading Cities
1. Urbanization:
2. Growth of trade in Italy
3. Hanseatic League:
4. Impact of textiles:
B. Civic Life
1. more freedom, social mobility
2. Jews blamed for Black Death
3. Guilds regulated trade
4. Banking industry:
Learning, Literature, and Renaissance
A. Universities and Learning
1. Monasteries were center of learning
2. By 1200 AD, colleges and universities emerged:
3. Bolognafamous for law faculty
4. Theology was most prominent study
B. Humanists
1. Humanism:
2. Geoffrey ChaucerCanterbury Tales
3. Dantes Divine Comedy
4. Erasmus humanist philosophy
5. Johann Gutenberg printing impact:
C. Artists
1. Leonardo
2. Michelangelo
3. Raphael
4. Donatello
Political and Military Transformation
A. Monarchs, Nobles, and Clergy
1. Weak monarchs, limited power
2. Innovations in weaponry:
3. King Philip the Fair of France reduced power of pope:
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Comparative Perspectives
A. Imperial Comparisons
1. Strong centralized governments like China were not inclined to explore
2. Weak rulers led exploration to explorers
3. European diseases led to Spanish dominance
4. Asia and Africa was more resistant because of disease immunity
B. Economic Comparisons
1. Europeans found sophisticated markets and trade in Africa and Asia
2. Europeans introduced new technologies and political control over natives to exploit
natural resources