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Expansion

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What factors around 1050 allowed for feudalism to thrive?

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FLOURISHING!

  • Government stabilized
  • Agriculture thrives
  • Family size grows!
  • Becomes too populated

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New Lands

  • Cleared forests and marshes
  • Peasants allowed to go forth and find new land
  • Start heading towards Eastern Europe
  • Halted by Alexander Nevsky

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What happened at the Battle of Tours?

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Reconquista

  • Christian rulers team up
  • Begin to take back the Iberian Peninsula back from the Muslims
    • Moors
  • 801 - 1492

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Which guys have conquered much of Southern Italy at this point?