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THE EARLY MODERN AGE
ECONOMIC TRANSFORMATION
Agricultural pruduction
Three field system
divides are in 3
leaves one in fallow
Main crops were cereals
Agriculture and livestock farming
Commercial activity
2- Was sold in city markets
1- Surplus in agriculture activity
trade routes were established
Craftmanship
products were made in workshops
association of carftmen = guilds
Products
products were brought to Europe
Like food, spices and precious metals
economic system in which capital belong to private owners
EARLY MODERN AGE
Finished in 1789
with French Revolution
Began in 1453
with the fall of Constantinople
Form of Payment
Bill was cretaed
To not travel with cash
A document that guaranteed
That a banker would pay a merchant
On a specific date and at specified place
Providing Loans
Merchants needed money
1-Bankers lent money
2-In exchange you return them the same amount of money
3-And additional interest
Medici and Fugger families were very important
SOCIAL CHANGE
Classes
Privileged
Nobility and Clergy
Didn't pay taxes
Own most of land
judged differently
Lived in castles and palaces
Families of the nobility got married with richest burgeoisie families
Unprivileged
Peasants
Largest gruop
They were swerfs
They escaped to citites to have freedom
Had to pay
Burgeoisie
Upper Burgeoisie
Rich houses
Very powerful
Important merchants
Bankers, officials
Lower Burgeoisie
small merchants
Artisans, servants...
Large gourp in cities
Humble houses
Beggars
Vagabonds
Live thank to charity
Marginalised
Monarchs
Monarchs supported burgeoisie or nobility depending on their interests
Women in the Early Modern Age
Less imprtant
Main function to have children
Hihg infant mortality rate
Breast feeding wasn't accepted
wet nurses
