Europe At The Turn Of The 13th Century

Europe had suffered one of the worst natural mishaps the world had ever seen. From the wings of Italy through to Ireland, its inhabitants had lost their last strand of hope as a plethora of violent behavior and barbarism had befallen upon them. While morality deteriorated and respect for human life seemed impracticable, the people of these times were being threatened to their extinction. Their hope in God grew weary as the living learned to expect not the graceful hand of the God they knew, but rather death at the hands of their spiteful enemies. Europe had lost a substantial number of its population and they were left with nothing else to do but wade through the sorrowful events and losses they had suffered. Hoping not to experience a death as gruesome as their deceased friends and families did. Every aspect of society experience the negative effects of this crisis and indeed, one could say the black
As its population number of 80000 rubbed shoulders with Paris, Milan and Florence, which were at the time the most populated cities in Europe, Venice could least expect the new shortcomings that awaited them. The ports of the cities of northern Italy were the busiest and richest of all in terms of trade and commerce allowing them to acquire special treatment from the government.
This growth in population obviously caused an increase in Europe’s inhabitants as a whole. To cater to the needs of this new change of population increase, new towns had to be established, as the land was too small to contain and feed all these people. Forests were floored and swamplands depleted in efforts to increase the production of food for the people. This left the fertility of the land at the barest minimum as they constantly cultivated it to fit the needs of the