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- 1299 City in France
- Arras
- Powerful Family in 1299 France
- Crespin
- Black Death
- 1348-1350, killed 1/3 of Europe
- Commercial Revolution
- Specialization, try to make profits on goods
- Capital
- money or property used to make more money
- joint stock companies
- group of people invest together
- Renaissance
- rebirth of arts/learning from Rome and Greece, 1300-1600s
- Johannes Gutenberg
- printing press w/ movable type 1400s
- astrolobe
- learn ships position w/ stars
- monopoly
-
sole economic control
Venice had on Mediteranean products - Marco Polo
- brought tales of Asia
- 1400 Portugal leader of exploration
- Prince Henry, known as the Navigator
- caravel
- small, fast ship
- Bartolomeu Dias
- explorer, ship blown around cape of good hope