1. MIDDLE AGES
A.D

2. Changes in medieval society
I. AGRICULTURE – Expanding civilization required increased food supply; climate became warmer between AD
*Switch from Oxen to horses
*Three Field System – separated fields into 3 instead of 2 ; rotated crops
*Food Production increased
*People Lived Longer

4. CHANGES IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
II.TRADES:
*Development of GUILDS
*Made up of workers who did same job
*Worked to improve economic/social conditions
*Set Standards and Prices/Made Rules
*Merchant Guild; Craft Guild

6. CHANGES IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
III. FINANCE – COMMERCIAL REVOLUTION
*Expansion of trade and banking; more workers were needed
*borrowing money led to creation of banks by Catholic Church
*Jews became chief sources of loans
*Merchants’ wealth and power expanded

7. CHANGES IN MEDIEVAL SOCIETY
IV. Urban life renewal V. Revival of learning * Centers of learning established- Universities * Contact with Muslims during Crusades increased available knowledge

10. What really happened during the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague?
THE BLACK DEATH
What really happened during the outbreak of the Bubonic Plague?

11. BUBONIC PLAGUE – “BLACK DEATH”
Revival of trade, but trade sometimes carried more than goods.
Highly Contagious Disease
Spread by fleas that lived on rats
Called the black death because once bitten by flea, people developed swellings and black bruises
Quickly became epidemic – no cure

12. Physician lancing a bubo, or lymph node swollen by infection with bubonic plague bacteria

13. BUBONIC PLAGUE – “BLACK DEATH”
Began in Asia – 1300’s – carried by Mongols along Silk Road; spread to Middle East and North Africa
1347 plague swept through Italy; brought by traders to Europe (Spain, France, Germany, England)
Spreads Quickly – in 4 years spreads all through Europe

16. A town crier calls on the people to “bring out your dead” in a medieval street scene from the time of the Black Death. The victims were then hauled away for burial in mass graves.

17. EFFECTS OF PLAGUE Population Loss – about 1/3 of European pop.
Trade Declined – prices rose, production fell
Feudalism Declined – peasant revolt
Church Suffered – questioned faith
Jews were Blamed – persecuted/killed

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21. Moments in time: the curse of the rat