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Changing Traditions: Timeline 3 (C. 1300 To 1700)

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1. Big Changes in the Period c. 1300 to 1700

  • By the ninth century, large parts of Asia witnessed the growth and expansion of great empires.
  • By the fifth century CE the Roman Empire in the west had disintegrated.
  • Charlemagne's empire was in western and central Europe at the beginning of the ninth century.
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2. Feudalism and the Church in Western Europe

  • In western Europe, after the disintegration of the western Roman Empire, Roman institutions were adapted to the needs of tribal kingdoms.
  • The Church and royal government developed a combination of Roman institutions with tribal customary rules.
  • The finest example was the empire of Charlemagne in western and central Europe at the beginning of the ninth century.
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3. Commerce, Towns, and the Renaissance

  • From the twelfth century, Mediterranean entrepreneurs in Venice and Genoa influenced commerce and towns.
  • Their ships carried growing trade with Muslim states and the remains of the Roman Empire in the east.
  • Trade within Europe improved through fairs and the port cities of the Baltic Sea and the North Sea.
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4. Voyages of Discovery and European Encounters

  • By the end of the fifteenth century, travel and discovery increased greatly.
  • Spaniards and Portuguese pushed down the coast of western Africa and eventually led journeys around the Cape of Good Hope to India.
  • Vasco da Gama's arrival in Calicut (present-day Kozhikode) occurred in 1498.

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Feudalism was the social and economicThe ChurchFrom the twelfth centuryFrom the fourteenth centuryAt the end of the fifteenth

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