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THE EARLY MODERN AGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - At the end of Middle Ages
        
        European societies began a recovery
  - - - Three-field system was maintained
        
        There were no technological advances
    - - Products controlled by guilds
      - Domestic system was created
        
        People made products at home
        
        Merchats provide tools and raw materials
      - They tried to improve the work
      - New products brought to Europe
    - - Capitals of private owners
        
        Members of the bourgeoisie created
        
        Trading companies to generate profits
      - Development of banking
        
        Changed money
        
        Looking for the money/precious metals of their clients
    - - Surplus in production (excess food)
        
        They were sold in the city markets
        
        Merchants/traders established trade groups
    - - Merchants needed money for commercial activities
      - Bankers lent money in exchange of
        
        The same amount of money plus an additional (interest)
      - Most important banking families
        
        The Medici in Florence
        
        The Fugger family in Germany
      - Traders made large profits
        
        Bankers became rich
    - - Bill of exchange was created
- - - - Social, economic, political and cultural
- - - - Nobility and clergy
      - Minority/owned most of the land
      - Access to high political positions
      - Numerous privileges
        
        Didn´t pay taxes
        
        Judged by special tribunals
      - Lived in castles in countryside/in palaces in city
    - - "Commoners"
      - Mayority of the population
      - Payed taxes
        
        No access to high political positions
      - Sub-groups
        
        Peasants
        
        Form the largest group
        
        They were serfs of feudal lord/noble
        
        They pay them rent / part of their harvest
        
        Because of these many went to the cities for more freedom
        
        Burgeoisie
        
        City inhabitants
        
        Not ruled by a feudal lord
        
        This group increased in number
        
        Became wealthier & gained more political influence
        
        Significant differences
        
        Upper bourgeoisie
        
        Important merchants, bankers and officials
        
        Llived in richly decorated urban palaces
        
        Petite bourgeoisie
        
        Small merchants, - import. officials, artisans, artists, servants and labourers
        
        They formed the larges group in the city
        
        Lived in humble houses in buildings with several floor
        
        With city nobels
        
        They formed rulying class
        
        Most powerful and influential group
        
        Marginalised social group
        
        Beggar and vagabonds
        
        Lived on charity
        
        Social groups protested for their rights
        
        Most violent protests of the peasants
        
        These revolts were severely ended using force