End of Feudalism
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- Burghers
- This term refers to merchants and bankers.
- Commercial Revolution
- the expansion of the trade and business that transformed European economies during the 16th and 17th centuries.
- Heavy Plow
- a plow made out of iron, sometimes with a steel tip
- Guild system
- A group of people with the same occupation. They set prices, train noobs.Influence government economy. Pay funaral $, pay dowries for poor girls, provided health insurance to members
- Three Field System
- crop rotation
- growth of towns and trade
- population goes from 30mil to 42mil. Towns are filthy, feudal lords tax. Serfs can become free for living in town a year and a day
- Journeyman
- day worker, worked for master for $ 6 days a week, guild can make him a master if he makes a masterpiece
- Vernacular
- a common language of the people (replaces latin) causes new literature, more literacy
- banking and credit
- Merchants make credit to avoid carrying lots of cash, take out loans
- University system
- groups of scholars meet together and form universities
- Horses vs. Oxen
- Horses can pull three times as much as Oxen
- Master
- owns own shop, works with other maters, sometimes serves in civic government
- Apprentice
- parents paid for training, lived with master, obeys master, trained 2-7 years, cannot marry during training, becomes journeyman