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The Crises of the 14th Century
Week 2
Overview
• Last Week:– The World of 1300
• 14th Century Crises• The Renaissance• https://
youtu.be/grbSQ6O6kbs
Conditions for a Crisis
• Little Ice Age (14th – 18th Centuries)
• Asian steppe• Rats and fleas• Mutations • China, 1320s and 1330s• 1347, Ship from Caffa to
Sicily• Trade Routes
Dance of Death, 15th C, Bernt Notke, Tallin Estonia
Black Death/Bubonic Plague
Black Death/Bubonic Plague
• Named for swelling/ discoloration on the skin
• 25%-65% mortality• Blame?• Peasant Revolts– 1358, Jacquerie– 1381, English Peasant
Revolt/Wat Tyler
Mongol Collapse
• Kublai Khan (1215-1294)– Yuan Dynasty– Hangzhou, 1276– Japan, 1274, 1281
• Hulagu Khan (r. 1256-1265)– Baghdad, 1258
• Tamerlane (1336 – 1405)– Samarkand– India, 1398-1399– Beyazid, 1402
• Effects
Tamerlane’s Empire
15th Century Europe
European Troubles
• The Hundred Years’ War (1337-1453)
• Great Schism– Avignon Papacy (1309 –
1378)– Gregory XI (r. 1370-1378)– Council of Constance
(1414 – 1418)• Byzantine Empire (1453)
– Mehmed II (r. 1451–1481) Battle of Crecy, late 15th C, Manuscript, Chronicles by Froissart
Avignon
The Great Schism
Byzantine Empire, c. AD 1025
Constantinople