E.Q. What were the outcomes of the revival of trade?

Aim: What world did the revival of trade help to create?

Do Now1. Please hand in your homework.2. Have a seat and take out your notebook.

Assignment # 1: (DO NOT COPY – Just read & respond):

1. Students are kindly asked to cogitate (ponder, reflect, contemplate, brainstorm, think deeply) this very question, as 21st century students studying the period in question (post-Crusades/High Middle Ages), with your adequate knowledge surrounding the “revival of trade,” how might you weigh or assess the success and/or failure in which the rebirth of trade gave life to?

In a nutshell, do you think the rebirth of trade created more positive or negative outlooks/results for Western Europeans?

Create a T chart assessing both the NEGATIVE & POSITIVE results of the rebirth of trade and then Summarize your findings – what conclusion have you come away with? Briefly examine the two.

Plague/Black Death: • Took out 54 million• 1/3 of population wiped out• Defining event(s) of the Middle

Ages• Spread by fleas which lived on rats• A lack of cleanliness added to their

vulnerability: crowded with poor sanitation; ate stale or diseased meat; primitive medicine (people were often advised to not bathe b/c open skin pores might let in the disease).

• Highly contagious disease nodules would burst around the area of the flea bite.

In 1347, Italian merchant ships returned from the Black Sea, one of the links along the trade route between Europe and China. Many of the sailors were already dying of the plague, and within days the disease had spread from the port cities to the surrounding countryside. The disease spread as far as England within a year.

Revival of Trade = The Commercial Revolution & Economic Changes

• The revival of trade led to a revolution in commerce (trade & $$ exchange).• As trade revived, merchants needed money to buy goods. The reintroduction of

money led European merchants to develop new business practices, such as:

– Setting up of banking houses (banks).– Gradual end to feudalism – Cultural diffusion = Europeans learns about varying people & cultures =

more choices to choose from. – Helped to reconfigure European society = end to the Medieval Ages the

Renaissance, which gave birth to the early modern age. – Improvements in science, medicines, education, technology, arts,

architecture, etc. – Joining together to set up partnerships.– Developing insurance.– Adopting bill of exchange and later checks.– Use of credit.

Queries?

1. Does anyone have any clarifying questions &/or comments surrounding the HW? Or Monday’s lesson? Bubonic Plague? Guilds?

Closure: Actively read the packet surrounding the Bubonic Plague (individually, students will review slides 29-48)

1. What did you learn about the Bubonic Plague?

2. What conclusions can we make as we carefully assess the causes & long-term impacts.

3. What does this “historical episode” say about Medieval Europeans and their comprehension of diseases – both causes and effects, and in terms of dealing with epidemics like the “Black Death?”

4. What role did the “growth of towns” play in the rapid spread & death of over 1/3 of the inhabitants throughout Western Europe?

5. Do you think a similar epidemic may have similar outcomes/impact on contemporary American society? Why, or why not? If any, what might the president, other leaders, and medical professionals recommend/do differentially?

Assignment #2

1. Actively read the handout – mark it up as you read along. – Confused? – Clarifying queries? – Comments? – Mark them down.

The Spread of the Black Death (See

the map on p. 329).Now, based on the

map, what assessments can be made surrounding the plague? Where

did it spread the most? Why?

The Path of the Plague• Traveled on trade routes and caravans• Generally from south to north• And east to west• Passing through

– Italy– France– England– Germany– Denmark– Sweden– Poland– Finland– Greenland

The origins of the disease

The Path of the Plague• Erupted in Gobi

Desert, late 1320’s• Epidemic in Europe in

6th century but dormant since then

• Reached the shores of Italy in 1348

• Spread in every direction, primarily westward

• Lasted 3 years