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THE LATE MIDDLE AGES
HIS 101 EXAM 4
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THE MONGOLS
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- THE MONGOL DECLINE DESTABILIZED EUROPE-ASIAN TRADE
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GENGHIS KHAN
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- MONGOL RULER TEMUJIN CONQUERED CHINA, CENTRAL ASIA, RUSSIA, AND PERSIA DURING THE EARLY 1200S.
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MONGOLS
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- AFTER GENGHIS DIED, THEY ESTABLISHED SEPERATE "KHANATES" WHICH ALLOWED FOR THE REVIVAL OF EURASIAN TRADE.
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TAMERLANE
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- MONGOL RULER'S ATTACKS ON OTHER KHANATES LED TO CHAOS, HURTING TRADE AND ENDING EUROPEAN PROSPERITY.
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THE OTTOMAN TURKS
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-EUROPE'S OTHER ASIAN PROBLEM.
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OTTOMAN TURKS
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- ISLAMIC RAIDERS REPLACED THE MONGOLS AS THE MAIN THREAT TO THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, 1300S-1400S.
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OSMAN I
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-FIRST OTTOMAN SULTAN RULED NEAR CONSTANTINOPLE.
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BATTLE OF KOSOVO
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- OTTOMANS TOOK SERBIA FROM BYZANTIUM
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FALL OF THE BYZANTINES
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-THE OTTOMANS DEFEATED THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE, 1453.
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MEHMED II
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- "THE CONQUEROR" CONQUERED BYZANTINE EMPIRE.
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CONSTANTINE XI
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-LAST BYZANTINE EMPEROR DIED DURING SIEGE.
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SIEGE OF CONSTANTINOPLE
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- THE OTTOMAN TURKS CAPTURED THE BYZANTINE CAPITAL, RULING THERE IN INSTANBUL IN 1453-1924.
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THE BLACK DEATH
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- THE BLACK DEATH RAVAGED EUROPE 1347-1351.
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FAMINE, 1310-1320
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- MANY ARGUE THAT THIS GREAT FAMINE UNDERNOURISHED EUROPEANS, MAKING THEM WEAK FOR THE PLAGUE.
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BLACK DEATH
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- GREAT PLAGUE THAT CAME BY FLEA-INFESTED RATS ON TRADE ROUTES THAT KILLED 1/3RD TO 1/2 OF EUROPE, 1437-51.
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FLAGELLANTS
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-A GERMAN MOVEMENT OF CHRISTIAN MEN WHO WHIPPED THEMSELVES TO PREVENT THEMSELVES FROM THE PLAGUE.
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ECONOMIC DEPRESSION
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THE BLACK DEATH ALSO HURT EUROPE'S ECONOMY
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COLLAPSE OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE
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- POPULATION LOSS AND TAMERLANE'S ATTACKS LED TO A DECLINE OF TRADE.
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COLLAPSE OF BANKING
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- TRADE LOSS HURT FLORENCE (EUROPE'S BANK CENTER).
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GUILDS
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- PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS OF ARTISANS; GUILDS MONOPOLIES FUELED TENSIONS IN DEPRESSION.
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FEUDAL REBELLIONS
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- THE DEPRESSION BROKE DOWN THE FEUDAL ORDER, LATE 1300S.
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THE JACQUERIE
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- ANGRY OVER HIGH TAXES, PEASNATS MURDERED NOBLES, WHO CRUSHED THE REVOLT, 1358
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THE CIOMPI
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- FLORENTINE WOOLEN-CLOTH WORKERS WHO ROSE UP AGAINST GUILDS TO PROTEST JOB LOSSES, 1378
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ENGLISH PEASANT REVOLT, 1381
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-ENGLISH PEASANTS DEMANDED AN END TO HIGH TAXES AND SERFDOM; THE ELITE BRUTALLY REPRESSED THE REVOLT.
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LATE MEDIEVAL LITERATURE
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-VERNACULAR LITERATURE INCREASED BY THE 1300S
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DANTE ALIGHIERI
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- ITALIAN POET PUBLISHED THE DIVINE COMEDY- A JOURNEY FROM HELL TO HEAVEN- IN ITALIAN.
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
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- THE GREAT ENGLISH POET WROTE: THE CANTERBURY TALES IN ENGLISH, LATE 1300S.
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CHRISTINE DE PISAN
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- FRENCH WRITER (WOMAN) DEFENDED THE VIRTUE AND HONOR OF WOMEN.
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