Mr. Needle’s Blog Space

The final day is MONDAY!!
Shang, Zhou, Qin, Han
Sui, Tang, Song
Yuan, Ming, Qing, Republic
Mao Zedong

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For your viewing pleasure
http://bneedle.edublogs.org/files/2008/12/japan-blog.ppt

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Use the following to supplement “Enter the Needle”
http://bneedle.edublogs.org/files/2008/12/post-enter-the-needle-blog-notes.doc
 
Societal changes
Technology impacts production
allowed peasants to escape their debts and begin to become free farmers
Higher taxes
people had higher “incomes”
eventually this would cause conflict for hundreds of years
plight of the peasant improved during this later part of the middle ages
Banking – letters of credit, partnerships
Banking and moneymaking through trade [...]

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