Western Europe

AP* EDITION|THE EARTH AND ITS PEOPLE: A GLOBAL HISTORY CHAPTER 14 Larger Concept Section Review Vocabulary Terms Details RURAL GROWTH AND CRISIS Peasants, Population, and Plague -Population growth stimulated improved farming methods and agricultural expansion, but peasant life did not significantly improve Latin West-historians? name for the territories of Europe that adhered to the Latin rite of Christianity and used the Latin language for intellectual exchange in the period ca. 500-1500 Three-field system-a rotational system for agriculture in which two fields grow food crops and one lies fallow Black Death-an outbreak of bubonic plague that spread across Asia, North Africa, and Europe in the mid-fourteenth century, carrying out vast numbers of persons