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Parallel Societies: Economy in High Middle Age Germany vs the Toltecs/Aztecs
HIGH MIDDLE AGES GERMANY
VS
TOLTEC/ AZTEC CIVILIZATIONS
AN ECONOMIC COMPARISON.
GOAL!
Economic stability in the High Middle Ages German States and the Aztec/Toltec Empires grew through agricultural efficiency and substantial labor as a result of tecnological innovations and new agricultural systems.
Bibliography
http://facstaff.bloomu.edu/hickey/state_and_society_in_the_high_mi.htm
http://history-world.org/dynamic_culture_of_medieval_euro.htm
http://www.oecd.org/mexico/oecdterritorialreviewsthemesoamericanregionsoutheasternmexicoandcentralamerica.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organisation_for_Economic_Co-operation_and_Development
http://regentsprep.org/regents/global/themes/economic/mes.cfm
http://www.saylor.org/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/HIST101-Subunit-8.2.3-Toltecs-FINAL.pdf
Images:
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http://www.mysocialstudiesteacher.com/wiki/images/4/4d/Manorialism.jpg
https://andreacefalodotcom2.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/medieval-coins.jpg
http://anthrome.files.wordpress.com/2011/04/chinampa1.gif
http://schoolworkhelper.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Aztec-Empire.jpg
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Sania Ali
Rashel Bajaj
Tarikasri Chittajalu
Nam Tran Ngyuen
Germany vs. Toltecs/Aztecs
The ecomony of both regions largely depended on agriculture.
Both regions used new techniques and technology to improve agricultural yield
By improving agricultural efficiency, both regions saw an increase in population size and economic stability.
HIGH MIDDLE AGES GERMANY
Results of Economic Change
- Growth of towns and urban markets
- Increased population
- Surplus of food & better diet
- Increased need for merchants
- End of 1200s: created a large & wealthy middle class
- Commercial Revolution in 1000 CE
- Europe became unified market ecomoy
- Decline of Serfdom in 1200s
- Shifted to money-based commercial economy
HIGH MIDDLE AGES GERMANY
Changes in Economy
Toltec/Aztec and Mesoamerica
Results of Economic Change
- Population increase
- Increase in strength of empire
- Flexibility in changing conditions
- Stability preserved despite external pressures
- Enmities
- Wealth
1. Advances in agricultural technology
- Improved tools used iron
- Wind and water mills
- New land use patterns
- Three field system
2. Village-Based agriculture
- 500-1000 CE peasants in Western Germany changed to this system
- Manorialism
Toltec/Aztec and Mesoamerica
Changes in Economy
THEME
Agriculture
1. Advances in Agriculture
- developed new methods of farming
- Chinampas
- Drained swamps
- Fertilizers
2. Self organizing principles to allow flexibility
- Organizational Strategy
Workers of the High Middle Ages German States and the Aztec/Toltec Empires advanced agriculture, which played a crucial role in the stability and growth of the ecnomoy for both regions.