16th-18th Century World Cultures

Week One (Chapter 15)

Famine and disease

population growth/climatic changes/shortages and soaring food prices/disease

tuberculosis

bubonic/pneumonic plagues: spread, numbers

social effects

economic effects

100 Years’ War

reasons

direction

characters

results

Crisis in Late Medieval Catholic Church

reasons

characters

results

Late Medieval Outlook

cult of death

chivalry

national literatures

economic recovery

Political Changes

unified/why

not unified/why