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Nature of Nation State

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What? Nation-State: It?s Nature Introduction Nation-State? Defined DecentralCentralized power for central territory Opp. Of Feudal State New Monarchy (modern nation state) Before: King relied on nobles to give power: nobles center Feudal Kings Nobles People King trying to get more power, cut out middle man--- get rid of power among nobles King People Raised own power / reduced power of opponent (nobles) Centralized power in king: By? Raising king power; king above nobles Lowering nobles power, nobles below king ?I?m better than you? = ?You suck? This takes time--Nobles have lots of power? Western Europe? Who? Whats? France England Dutch Republic All forms of CENTRALIZED power; nation state Central-Eastern Europe Declining: ?Aging States? HRE Poland Ottoman Empire

The latin west AP world history notes

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CHAPTER 14 The Latin West, 1200?1500 I. Rural Growth and Crisis A. Peasants and Population 1. 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. Women labored in the fields with men but were subordinate to them. 3. 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. 4. As population grew, people opened new land for cultivation, including land with poor soil and poor growing conditions. This caused a decline in average crop yields beginning around 1250.

AP* EDITION|THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLE: A GLOBAL HISTORY Chapter 14 Review

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AP* EDITION|THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLE: A GLOBAL HISTORY CHAPTER 14 Larger Concept Section Review Vocabulary Terms Details RURAL GROWTH AND CRISIS Peasants, Population, and Plague -Population growth stimulated improved farming methods and agricultural expansion, but peasant life did not significantly improve Latin West-historians? name for the territories of Europe that adhered to the Latin rite of Christianity and used the Latin language for intellectual exchange in the period ca. 500-1500 Three-field system-a rotational system for agriculture in which two fields grow food crops and one lies fallow Black Death-an outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying out vast numbers of persons

The Renaissance

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The Italian Renaissance (1350-1550) Three Conditions that led to the Renaissance in Italy Jacob Burckhardt wrote The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy (published in 1860), he established the framework for all modern interpretations of the renaissance period Renaissance: (means rebirth in French) was a period of artistic and cultural achievement from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century (two characteristics are individualism and secularism [materialism]) Leon Battista Alberti : believed that he could be a "Universal Man" (a well-rounded Courtier) Europeans began to come into contact with other more advanced civilizations Trade, with the Hanseatic League: a number of North German coastal towns that had formed a commercial and military association, also known as the Hansa
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