I' Later Middle Ages

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I. Later Middle Ages

• 1. Spanish Reconquista
• - Crusading spirit continued after the
  Crusades
• - small kingdoms united to rid Spain of
  Moors in the 700s

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- Ferdinand Isabella drive Muslims Jews
from Spain in later 1400s Spanish Inquisition
put people on trial accused them of heresy
(belief opposed to the churchs) Muslims
Jews fled Spain if didnt convert, you were
burned at the stake
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• 2. Vernacular
• - writing in own language
• - before this, scholars church
  officials wrote in Latin

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• 3. Bubonic Plague
• - a.k.a. Black Plague mid 1300s
• - began in China spread on trading ships sent
  to Italy from the Middle East then spreads
  throughout Europe
• - spread by fleas on rats

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• Effects of the Plague
• Economic
• - productivity declined employers workers
  were dead
• Social
• - Jews were blamed for the plague -
  persecution of Jews
• - 1 in 3 Europeans die b/c of plague