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THE EARLY MODERN AGE - Coggle Diagram
THE EARLY MODERN AGE
economic transformation
Increased agricultural production
because
economy was based on cagriculture
more land available
improvement in agricultural techniques
thertiary crop rotation
land was divide in 3
one part was left fallow
main cultivated product
cereals
societies were very vulnerable during
bad croop years
bad weather
hunher and disease reappeared
The expansion of craftsmanship
formed guids
groups/asociations of craftsmen who made the same product
fuctions
helped eachother
stablished prieces and working conditions
domestyc sistem
products were made at home
New products
precious metals
foods and spieces
Intensified comercial activity
because of
increased agricultural production
produced more food than what they needed
sold the surplus in city markets
new trade routes
Development of mercantile capitalism
Burgeosie
middle class
owned
money
raw materials
tools
worshops
created trading companies
were rich
Banking started
money is given for having lands
bankers
important families
Italy: Medici Family
Germany: Fugger Family
beacame rich
provide loans
people used them
traders: for starting bussineses
monarch: to explore
Bill of exchange
A document that guaranted the banker would pay the merchant
no longer necesary to travel with money
Curiosities about Early Modern Age
The custom of eating with fork
reached Sapin after M.E
They didn't had bath's
because of social and religious believes
used a lot of perfume
women were only for having babyes
didn't go to hospotals
high infant mortality
Breast feeding was not socially acepted
nobility women pay other women for this work
social change
Economic prosperity
reduction in big epidemics
increade in population
cities grew
specialy the ones that trade
Development of urban society
Privilage class
nobility and cleregy
the smallest part of the population
lived in palaces/castles
privileges
special judges
no taxes
Unprivilage class
Bourgeoisie
Characteristic
city inhabitants
not controlled by the novels
the amount of them increased (pesants went to cityes)
gainged political influence
Upper/lowe
Upper
Important merchants, bankers and officials
RICH
lived in urban palaces
some of them were richer than the nobels
strated marrying among them
Lowe/petite
less important offices
artisans, artist, servants, labourers
lived in humild houses
By the en fo the M.E they reached the same level of nobility
Pesants
serfls of the feudal lord
rent the land were they worked
pay with part of their harvest
went tto cityes for freedome
several and violent revolts
Marginalised social group
beggar and vagabonds
began in 1453: fall of Constantinopla
ended in 1789: French revolution
period of recovery
