HISTORY 101 - Europe from 1000 to 1800

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Bard College

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The second millennium opened a new era of European ascendancy. For 300 years, as a result of climate changes,Northern Europeans improved agriculture and lived longer, and a new middle class revived cities as centers of commerce and culture. Then came the apocalypse: a little ice age and the Black Death shaped the material conditions of life for the next five centuries. After 50 percent of Europeans died (1340-50), famine and epidemic kept the population in check until the 1700s. Yet we associate this period with the invention of the printing press and the rise of literacy; with the Renaissance, the Reformation and counter-Reformations, the Enlightenment, and great advances in science; with sociopolitical developments that modernized the Netherlands, England, and France; and with the creation of a global empire. How to explain the continued ascendancy of Europe in such hard times? To understand the paradoxical making of Europe, students examine primary sources and modern historical analyses.

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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