European History Late Medieval Europe

University:
California State University, Northridge
Course:
HIST 110 | World History to 1500
Academic year:

2022
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262

Pages:

2
Author:

Edgar Rowe

Late Medieval Europe Economic Boom in 15th century ● Trade ○ between Italian cities ( Florence, Venice) ○ Hanseatic League ( North Germany) ● Bauking ○ Influential families that were wealthy made it hard to get away with never paying it back Monarchies Strengthen and Centralize ● Kings start to pay professional armies instead of using armies of knights ● Kings gain control over lesser nobles ● Kings unify their Kingdoms and make united countries Except for the Holy Roman Empire - 7 princes decide to elect an emperor together England ● After Hundred Years War, civil war in England between the Houses of York and Landcaster ○ The War of Roses ● Henry Tudor ( Henry VII) wins war, establishes Tudor dynasty ○ Battle of Bosworth field (1485) Russia ● 1480- frees itself from the Mongols ● Prince of Moscow starts calling himself “ Isar” ( Caesar) Fall of Constantinople ● 1453- Ottoman Turks (under Mehemet II the conqueror) take Constantinople ○ End of Byzantine empire ○ Mehemet makes Hagia Sophia into a mosque ○ Ottomans conquer up through Balkans, Hungary ● Janissaries- Ottoman soldiers- kidnapped as babies from Christian lands, used as elite slave soldiers Spain 1469- Ferdinand of Aragon marries Isabella, Queen of Castile - Spain united into one country 1492- Reconquista ends- They have completely conquered Spain - Jews and Muslims expelled- unless they converted - Spanish inquisition investigates those who pretended to convert

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