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THE EARLY MODER AGE - Coggle Diagram

- - - - but this fashion took long to spread
  - - - People rubbed themselves with a piece of cloth or only washed their clothes
        
        and bad smells were neutralised with perfumes.
  - - - There was a high infant mortality rate only few children survived
        
        because of theseases, and many other reasons
        
        few mothers wouldn't survive neethere
      - they wanted the high emount of children so they could help in the familly
- - - - Venice, Paris, London, Cologne, Lisbon and Antwerp
  - - - divided into classes where
        
        priviledged class
        
        nobility
        
        they had privileges
        
        access to high political positions
        
        didn´t pay taxes
        
        owned most of the land.
        
        were judged by special tribunals
        
        They lived in their castles in the countryside or in palaces in the city
        
        Clergy
        
        unprivileged class
        
        commoners
        
        paid numerous taxes
        
        did not have access to high political positions
        
        sub-groups
        
        bourgeoisie
        
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        peasants
        
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        apart from those there where aldo the beggar and vagabonds
        
        who lived from charity
- - - - the banker would pay the merchant a quantity of money, on a specified date and at a specified place
        
        the reson of this was that you woldn't have to trabel with cash on you wich was unsafe
  - - - bankers became rich
      - among the most important banking families were,Medici in Florence and Fugger family in Germany
      - Banking was one of the most inportant roles in the new system known as mercantile capitalism
- - - - Intensified commercial activity
        
        the increase in agricultural production
        
        the city markets were created because of the excess of food produced.
      - The expansion of craftsmanship and prodacts
        
        products were made in workshops
        
        controlled by guilds( an association of craftmen)
        
        the domestic system was created (products which are made in people's homes )
        
        new products were brought to Europe
        
        precious metals, foods and spices
        
        The development of mercantile capitalism
        
        products wich belongd to private owners,mostly members of the bourgeoisie
        
        what they did was that they created trading companies to generate profits.
      - Increased agricultural production
        
        the amount of land under cultivationn increased
        
        the three-field system was maintained
        
        The main crops were cereals
        
        Agriculture and livestock farming
        
        main source of economic activity
        
        stayed during the years of bad crops, hunger and disease