The Effects Of Long Distance Travel During The Era 1200

Travel during this time period (1300s-1500s) was known to be safe depending on what routes and who's territory people traveled through. According to Francesco Pegolotti's advice to merchants bound for Cathay, he warns that traveling through lands where the lord has died recently may be unsafe till there is a new lord. This is do to the fact that there may be irregularities in the treatment of foreigners while there is no reigning lord. On the other hand, in the Mongol controlled regions trade was heavily promoted and protected. The fact that such a strong empire was protecting a heavily used trade route led to a boom in the amount of merchants traveling these routes. The main thing that discouraged travel was the presence the Black Death that

During the very harsh of winter of 1609-1610, there was a starving time. The people were starving because it was so

Later, bad weather conditions led to the great famine

Through history there have been devastating events during time periods, which eventually lead to positive outcomes, after all the sorrow comes the miracle everyone hoped for. As they say “there is always a light at the end of the tunnel.” As a matter of fact that is what happened during The Fourteenth century, it was one of the most devastating centuries, filled with horrible events, the outcome of those events led to the reshaping of Europe and Asia through trends and events. In Europe, during the Fourteenth Century, the population was soaring and there was surplus in the food supply.

Document 11 shows that in 1875-1900 there were about 18 famines and 26 million deaths by the famines. Therefore, when we look at the whole picture, it with shows that while the health and life improved dramatically, British

The over-population meant that more food had to be produced in order to sustain the population, however, economic changes and changes in climate caused bad harvests and famine. Unsurprisingly, there was a disproportionate rise of mortality among the village poor in times of famine. Falling temperatures caused severe harvest failures between 1315 and 1322, with the famine of 1315 to 1317 being called ‘The Great Famine’ which is said to have killed 10 to 15% of the population. With so many people living on the edge, the succession of bad harvests were bound to have a catastrophic affect. A dearth of food encouraged the already high death rate and also affected the birth rate as it discouraged fewer marriages and children, and we have already seen the effects this had on the population after the plague. On the Winchester manors heriot payers during the famine of 1315 to 1317 averaged at 142 annually, compared with 48 in the worst years of the 1270s. Ieuan Gethin described the plague in Wales as being ‘a rootless phantom which has no mercy’ but the famines introduced an era of high mortality which lasted until the Black Death, thus showing continuity in population decline. The Postan theory suggests that the plague did not start the downturn, but the damage had already been done before the plague, and the failure to repair the damage had been one of the causes for the delayed recovery. For instance the already high death rates due to famine made the Black Death merely a catalyst to decline. However, the trend is different all over the country, as Razi found for Halesowen. It is clear, however that famine conditions in 1369 also helped to reduce the

The society was affected because the farm lands abandoned and the food food prices dropped. There was not as much food needed because the populations had dropped. The people were down sick and they could not work which caused the farm lands to be abandoned and

30% of the people in Medieval Europe were died as a result of the Plague. This led to shortages in labour for landowners and increased demand for labour by nobles and landowners. These shortages got to the point where landowners

It changed the way our government runs today. Not only was it a man made famine but it was an act to industrialize and militarize the society.

Desperate times often call for desperate measures, and proposals of desperate measures are often met with swift criticism if they are found to be without rational thought and merit. It is unlikely that anyone in their right mind would consider, for any amount of time, the proposal of rearing children, or properly raising them, as food to help alleviate poverty-stricken Ireland in 1729. Yet, Jonathan Swift’s suggestion was satirical brilliance, and it was a modest proposal for illuminating the cause of Ireland’s woes. The proposal was not actually eating children but placing a mirror for the reader to reflect upon. The target audience of landlords, gentlemen, and other people of stature were more than accustomed to stepping on the poor on

Those who were very wealthy probably would not have been drastically affected by the famine whereas those who migrated the most. However, the poorer element from counties such as Clare, Kerry, and Mayo had weak representation in the area of migration after 1846 (114).

During the late 1330’s in Europe the population was growing dramatically. This caused food shortages, which began to worry the people. The summers and winters were harsh not helping with the crop harvesting. A famine broke out, and it is now known as the famine before the plague. In 1347, the Black Death began spreading across Western Europe. Over the time span of three years, the plague killed roughly one third of the population in Europe. It killed more people than any other epidemic or war up to this time. The Black Death, or Bubonic Plague, was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history.

Jonathan Swift, in his essay “A Modest Proposal”, effectively utilizes an extended metaphor in order to convey his message that we must take action against widespread poverty. The satirical point employed suggests that poor children be eaten in order to decrease the surplus population, and is efficacious due to the fact that in such a terrible state of affairs, cannibalism can be logically defended as a viable solution. Swift’s essay, written in 1729, clearly precedes the existing social programs in effect throughout much of the first world. However, the ominous reality is that Swift’s essay can just as effectively be used as a comparison, albeit a figurative one, to modern day society, if our current welfare spending continues.

If there was ever an important period historians, and people could put a finger on, this would be it. This is the important period where the world’s countries, kingdoms, and dynasties established trade routes. This is the period where countries were made and countries were destroyed because of the importance of trade and the importance of building a fundamental, religious, and economical way of life. This paper will discuss the goals and functions of trades, and traders, and a historical analysis of world trade. This paper will also get into world trade patterns, of The Americas, Sub-Saharan Africa, The Indian Ocean, The Silk routes, China and The South China Sea, Europe and The Mediterranean, and The Atlantic Exploration.

•    Analyze the changes and continuities in demographic changes in the Americas in the period from 1450 to 1914.