Years 950

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950 - 1000: Appearance in France and Germanic of castles of wood built on round lumps of earth, in plain close to a village or with the angle of a large borough. The Masters of these castles are former guards, named by the Viscount or the count. Holders of the public power, they end up monopolizing it and releasing themselves from the supervision of the central capacity.

Taken again demographic increase during second half of the 10th century: forests are cleared (Normandy, Mâcon be born and Auvergne as of the end from the 9th century), of the maritime marshes are desiccated in Flanders. The population of Western Europe would be of 22 million inhabitants.

the Châtellenie: the disorders and the demographic rise tend to make disappear the Carolingian system from the great field. The reserve is yielded in tenure to peasants and becomes increasingly reduced. To put forward direct by the Corvée is competed with by the Salariat. The Manse, over-populated, is split more and more. The new system, the rural seigniory, is entirely turned towards the Master, who fix the rates of royalty, the number of days of drudgeries, levies the taxation of the men, the rent of the ground, etc the lord is pressed on domestic serfs, to whom it entrusts spots administrative ( ministeria ). The lord, as a Immuniste, Count or Viguier, judge his peasants, and by the right of round of applause and by the castle which it built, can protect them and to dominate them. In certain areas, the Serf S form the major part of the population. In other, the free men dominate.

In Spain, during second half of Xe century, Galicians, Cantabres and Basques jointly gives in culture Right Bank of the Douro with the Mozarabes emigrated of Moslem Spain.

Birth of the common rural in Italy (Xe century). Ottoniens grant collective rights to him as hunting, fishing or the grazing ground.
In Italy also, the contracts of Complant (association between an owner and a peasant which puts the ground value and keeps half of it) and of Livello (in the Latium, 29 year old renewable contract, alienating the ground of a great landowner in favor of a free peasant) multiply.

Prosperity of the trade to the Denmark: Harald Blaatand develops the commercial vik Århus. Arabic Al' Tartushi, come from the Caliphate of Cordoue, returns account towards 950 of his voyage to Hedeby which it describes like an active and prosperous city.
Trade of York with the Viking S during second half of the 10th century.

money the mines of the Harz in central Germany become particularly productive starting from 950.

In Scandinavia, beginning of the drafting of the Hávamál ( Known as of the Almighty ) poem gnomic of the Eddas giving councils of wisdom and knowing to live.
950-1000: With the Japan, time of great religious constructions of the Period Heian: the hills of the “Mountain of the East” (Higashiyama) and the slopes of the Mont Hiei cover Buddhist sanctuaries.

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