This part of a lord's manor is directly controlled by the lord and used for the benefit of his household and dependents.
What is the desmesne?
100
The strength, speed, and mobility of the horse led to a shift away from the widespread use of this farm animal.
What is the ox?
100
In a young children's game song featuring the Black Death, Ring around the rosie, A pocket full of posie, ashes, ashes, we all: do this.
What is fall down?
100
The Malthusian theory that “medieval agriculture had low yields because there was insufficient pasture to keep the arable land fertile.”
What is the Postan Thesis?
100
The location of a cycle of six important trade fairs in the 13th century, and now a great way to celebrate important occasions.
What is Champagne?
200
This is a measure of deaths per 1000 per anum.
What is the Crude Death Rate?
200
Name for the party commonly held responsible for the spread of the Black Death in the middle of the 14th c., latin or binomial.
What is Rattus rattus?
200
This country made incoming merchants exchange their silver for paper currency, but wouldn’t trade it back.
What is China?
200
This ideology has a zero-sum view of the wealth in the world and drove much of England’s trade policy in the seventeenth century.
What is mercantilism?
200
This city lost its shipbuilding and textile industries as the 16th century world economy evolved, and was ultimately reduced to existence as a "semi-periphery."
What is Venice?
300
An expression that is used by economists and historians to describe the trust between individuals, especially when there are contracts and trade.
What is Social Capital?
300
This big medieval diplomatic player, born somewhere in Persia in the late eighth century, was not actually human.
What is Abul Abbas, the elephant?
300
This 17th century meteorological phenomena caused Europe and Northern America to experience unusually bitter winters.
What is the Maunder Minimum (or Little Ice Age)?
300
This type of system describes a regime where the population is stagnant because fertility decreases, rather than mortality increasing.
What is a low pressure Malthusian system?
300
An intermediary port in the Philippines, which has been claimed by some to be the birth of global trade, far earlier than the Europeans, East Asia had established permanent and direct trade with the Americas via this port.
What is Manila?
400
Based on the Latin word meaning head, this is the base word of the commonly misused adjective describing modern American business practice.
What is capital?
400
The late Middle Ages are known as the "golden age of" this.
What is bacteria?
400
A former student of this country claimed to know more than Professor McCants about the origin of tea from said country.
What is India?
400
According to Domar regarding slavery: free peasants, non-working landowners, and this third element can never exist simultaneously.
What is free land?
400
A settlement on the tip of Newfoundland where the vikings settled a thousand years ago, 500 years before Columbus set foot in the Americas.
What is L'Anse aux Meadows?
500
This system involved the substitution of money rents for labor services by the peasants and gradually led to the disintegration of the manorial system.
What is commutation?
500
The scientific name for a bacterium that caused the deaths of around 25% of the European population between 1348 and 1351.
What is Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis).
500
This method of shipbuilding involving overlapping hull planks was largely responsible for the seaworthiness of Viking longships.
What is clinker-built construction?
500
A systematic relationship between the yield of a harvest and the subsequent price of the grain (i.e. an estimate of the elasticity of demand for wheat).
What is King's Law?
500
The important trade emporium that stood at the mouth of the Rhine during the early medieval period.