The Earth and Its Peoples - Chapter 15
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CHAPTER 15 The Latin West, 1200?1500 I?? seq NLA \r 0 \h . Rural Growth and Crisis A?? seq NL1 \r 0 \h . Peasants and Population 1?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . In 1200 c.e. most Europeans were peasants, bound to the land in serfdom and using inefficient agricultural practices. Fifteen to thirty such heavily taxed farming families supported each noble household. 2?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Women labored in the fields with men but were subordinate to them. 3?? seq NL_a \r 0 \h . Europe?s population more than doubled between 1000 and 1445. Population growth was accompanied by new agricultural technologies in northern Europe, including the vthree-field system and the cultivation of oats.
