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The Western Experience, 8/e
Mortimer Chambers, University of California - Los Angeles
Barbara Hanawalt, Ohio State University
Theodore Rabb, Princeton University
Isser Woloch, Columbia University
Raymond Grew, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Breakdown and Renewal in an Age of Plague

Chapter Outline

I. Population Catastrophes

  1. Demographic Decline
  2. Plague

II. Economic Depression and Recovery

  1. Agricultural Specialization
  2. Protectionism
  3. Technological Advances
  4. The Standard of Living

III. Popular Unrest

  1. Rural Revolts
  2. Urban Revolts
  3. The Seeds of Discontent

IV. Challenges to the Governments of Europe

  1. Roots of Political Unrest
  2. The Nobility and Factional Strife
  3. England, France, and the Hundred Years' War
  4. The Tides of Battle
  5. Joan of Arc
  6. The Effects of the Hundred Years' War
  7. The States of Italy

V. The Fall of Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire

  1. The Fall of Constantinople
  2. The Ottoman Empire








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