Карточки Lecture 4: Black Death | Quizlet

Epidemic

A disease outbreak that spreads quickly and affects many individuals at the same time.

Pandemic

An outbreak with a wide geographic spread, affecting a high proportion of the population.

Endemic

A disease regularly found in a particular group or area

Plague

Not well defined; biologically refers to a specific type of disease (e.g., bubonic plague).

When was the black plague

1348-1350 AD

Black plague historically thought to be spread by ____?

Rats

Likely spread from ____ to Europe via merchants and Mongol invaders

Asia

High wages after black death resulted in?

Lower land rent

As poor became wealthy they expected a higher...?

standard of living

The plague resulted in many ___,___, and ____ across WESTERN Europe

Revolts, revolutions, Civil Wars

The plague resulted in EASTERN Europe with...?

harsher serfdom

Golden age of Islam was when?

8th-10th century AD

Where was the Golden Age of Islam centered?

Iraq, Baghdad

What was the catalyst for the Golden Age of Islam

Justinian Plague resulting in higher wage

European Recovery in the ____ century

15th

European recovery marked by:

-Large Monarchies

-Population growth

-Economic Expansion

institute devoted to cartography and navigation, driving discovery along African coast

Henry the Navigator

Age of Discovery (15th-16th century) important landmarks:

-Colombus discovering America

-John Cabot discovers Newfoundland and Nova Scotia

-Magellan sails around South America

-Cortes conquers Aztecs

-Pizarro conquers Incas

Which main invetions were responsible for a MASSIVE reduction in transportation costs?

-Rudder

-Compass

-Sail Technology

The age of discovery ultimated resulted in what economic phenomenom?

Globalisation

Southern European countries saw a huge increase in gold and silver (money supply) resulting in lack of attention to?

Manufacturing and Agricultural sectors

Possible reasons why Europe discovered Americas first and expanded:

-Political fragmentation

-Less immediate threats

-Closer

-Greater need for luxery goods

Increase in ________ __________ reduces inequality by increased returns to labor relative to land

real wages

Another source of inequality is wage gap between _______ and __________ workers

skilled, unskilled

ratio of skilled: unskilled wage

Skill premium

Skill premium ______ dramatically after Black Death

falls

With high labor wages their is incentive to creat what?

Labor saving technology

15th century england was a golden age for _______ laborers

agricultural

The consequences of the black plague in EASTERN europe were:

-Collapse of urban life due to low population density

-stricter serfdom

-peasants could not escape strict feudalism

The black death killed up to ______ of the european population

half

When was the Age of Discovery?

1490-1530

Exchange of diseases from Europe to Americas after 1492

Columbian Exchange

Why did Europe have an advantage on the rest of the world?

Political fragmentation created history of competition driving innovation. Especially in the military.

Time with upward spiraling war costs and where majority of government spending was devoted to warfare

The Military Revolution

Period where countries developed sophisticated systems of banking and credit driven by needsof warfare

The financial revolution

Proximate causes of European conquest:

Firearms and disease