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History 101 notes 2/21/20
History 101 lecture notes 2/21/20
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Evol Wst Idea/Inst to 17C (HIST101)
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Hist notes Friday 2/21/
Roman Empire in brief:
roughly 60 millions
Complex economy: empire wide trade network
Highly urbanized
Land tax
Paid standing army
Universal citizenship after 212 CE
Early Medieval Europe: “what’s new”
Cluster of kingdoms
Steep decline of urban population
Localized trade networks
Minimal land taxation, no standing army- elites (supported by possession
of land)
New political role for public assembly
Identification with ruling dynasties
Early Medieval Europe: “what more new”
Christianity: church as a major focus for politics
Roman elites survive: assimilate, accommodate
Some state/ public structure remain
Language and literature
The Dark Ages:
Documents and narratives become very scarce (history has a hard time
seeing this period)
Literacy reduced: change in markers of elite status
Status of warriors, and literacy becomes less important
Golden Age of Peasantry: tax burden reduced
They were unusually well fed
Ethnogenesis: people form, and then create histories for themselves
The Frank:
In the early 400’s the Franks cross Rhine to rule over Gallo Roman elite
Initially speak Germanic others /some adopt speaking latin
First major King, Clovis (481)
New Franisk Order
Kings: make war, exercise ceremonial functions, issue law codes and
appoint counts
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Counts: chief royal officials, war leaders and administrators
Usually related to kings and appointed
Bishops: urban administrators, often with close royal connections
Not generally appointed by kings, tensions w/counts
Together kings and bishops control old roman administration
Anglo- Saxon Britain:
5th century: roman armies withdraw, native elites must take charge
Germanic- speaking pagan kingdoms emerge to come dominate native
British in the southwest
600 CE handful of major kingdoms emerge
579 CE: mission of Augustine of Canterbury, conversion to christianity
begins
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History 101 notes 2/21/20
Course: Evol Wst Idea/Inst to 17C (HIST101)
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Hist notes Friday 2/21/20
Roman Empire in brief:
roughly 60 millions
Complex economy: empire wide trade network
Highly urbanized
Land tax
Paid standing army
Universal citizenship after 212 CE
Early Medieval Europe: “what’s new”
Cluster of kingdoms
Steep decline of urban population
Localized trade networks
Minimal land taxation, no standing army- elites (supported by possession
of land)
New political role for public assembly
Identification with ruling dynasties
Early Medieval Europe: “what more new”
Christianity: church as a major focus for politics
Roman elites survive: assimilate, accommodate
Some state/ public structure remain
Language and literature
The Dark Ages:
Documents and narratives become very scarce (history has a hard time
seeing this period)
Literacy reduced: change in markers of elite status
Status of warriors, and literacy becomes less important
Golden Age of Peasantry: tax burden reduced
They were unusually well fed
Ethnogenesis: people form, and then create histories for themselves
The Frank:
In the early 400’s the Franks cross Rhine to rule over Gallo Roman elite
Initially speak Germanic others /some adopt speaking latin
First major King, Clovis (481)
New Franisk Order
Kings: make war, exercise ceremonial functions, issue law codes and
appoint counts
