7/4/2023 0 Comments Ditto holland![]() ![]() Chaucer also happens during the 14th, though obviously in England where other peasant revolts and wars and such were going on. ![]() The significant trauma of all these events triggers the intense creativity in myriad fields that launches the Renaissance. During the 14th, also there was an economic collapse due to plague, war, climate change, famine, and peasant revolts. At this time, the Italian Renaissance is getting going, with Petrarch, Dante, and Boccaccio from the 14th-century being the most significant authors to usher in this era. In the 15th-century, we can largely look at this period as one with great unrest over the excessive prices of pepper and other spices being charged by various Italian merchant families, an astonishing level of economic growth for the elite, social changes, the beginnings of capitalism, and technological development. The simple answer is “Italian cartels and pepper,” but of course it’s more complicated than that we’re going to dig in deep here! The Italian Renaissance Of paramount importance for this post is understanding why Europeans decided they needed to colonize the world all at one time. I also really wanted to do the East India Companies in this post, but there is no possible way to look at what caused them and the EICs themselves in one day. This week, as we continue along with our pepper journey, we will be looking mostly at the 15th- and 16th-centuries. ![]()
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