The Growth of States I - intro
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- Created on: 25-05-18 16:07
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- The Growth of States I - intro (according to Anne Gerritsen and Anthony McFarlane)
- In Middle Ages, Europe had two great concentrations of wealth and power
- the Italian City-States which had grown rich from luxury trades between Asia and Europe
- north German towns of Hanseatic League which controlled commerce in products of northern seas, mines, forests and farms
- Southern Netherlands
- Another region of burgeoning economic activity during C15th
- when industry and commerce helped Duchy of Burgundy emerge as serious rival to Kingdom of France
- Another region of burgeoning economic activity during C15th
- During C16th
- Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted away from these foundations
- as medieval patterns of trade were supplemented and surpassed by new routes for commerce,
- opened by voyages of discovery made from Portugal and Spain during C15th
- as medieval patterns of trade were supplemented and surpassed by new routes for commerce,
- Europe's economic centre of gravity shifted away from these foundations
- Reaching into Atlantic Ocean from Lisbon and Seville, routes extended to Africa, Asia and Americas
- Hugely expanded European economic, political and cultural horizons and bringing into Western Europe resources that were gradually to transform its economies and societies
- In Middle Ages, Europe had two great concentrations of wealth and power
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