[Black Death to Commercial Revolution]
  
      * Before class 
  
      * Read Palmer, 104-118, 225-241; review 48-49 
  
      * Key terms
  
	Black Death				
	jacqueries			
	price revolution		
	East India Companies	
	yeomanry				
	grammar school
	college
	carnival
	domestic system
  
      * Key questions


1. What were the social and political consequences of the Black Death? 

2. What was "the Commercial Revolution"? 

3. Explain the origins, nature, and effects of the "putting out" or "domestic" system.

4. Describe the economic classes emerging in Europe in the early modern centuries.  What 
effect did the economic changes of the sixteenth century have upon each?  Why was the 
impact of economic change different in eastern and western Europe?
  
5. How does one distinguish elite culture from popular culture?

6. What may be considered the most significant economic developments of the eighteenth 
century?  What relationship do they bear to earlier economic developments?

7. Describe the role played by the British, the French, and the Dutch in the commerce of the 
eighteenth century.  What important advantages did Britain and France enjoy over other 
countries? 


  
      * Key concepts

	entrepreneur
	capital
	commercial capitalism
	mercantilism 
	bourgeoisie 
	elite 

[Black Death to Commercial Revolution]

In class 
  
      * Outline 
  
		1. Features of traditional society 
  
			a. social structure 
			b. urban
				16th-century French
				   les riches
				   les artisans
				   le populaire
			c. family 
			d. women 
  
		2. New forces 
  
			a. Black Death 
			b. economic change: rise of commercial capitalism 
  
      * Key terms
        cultivator
        smallholder  
	artisan 
	nuclear family 
	Black Death 
	yeoman 
	mercantilism 

      * Key concepts
  
	1. emerging distinction between eastern and western Europe 

	2. beginning of status differentiation in cities 

	3. interaction of demographic and economic forces in changing
	   European society