Latin West Social Changes

Rural Growth and Crisis:
While the Latin West flourished under cultivation, farming techniques, an use of machinery and mechanical forms of energy, rural Europeans faced a time of catastrophe and struggle. The growth of population had a major impact on society and caused many difficulties and conflicts to arise. The Black Death in Latin West took care of the over population, but it also caused people to turn more religious and less conservative, caused many social changes, and also led to the higher demand pay from skilled and manual laborers, which then led to revolt by peasants against wealthy nobles and churchman. Mining, metalworking, and the use of mechanical energy all helped with the development of watermills, which were used for many
There was rivalry against professors, like Dominican and Franciscan, fighting for whose work was more accepted by others. Humanists, people who were interested in their humanities, the classical disciplines of grammar, rhetoric, poetry, history, and ethics, were able to introduce a new curriculum that was based upon the languages and literature of Greco-Roman antiquity. The new printing technology influenced the humanists because it helped to increase their exposure to ancient texts, literary works, and moral guides. During the time where painting, sculpture, and architecture flourished, Renaissance art rose into popularity, and the scholarly and artistic achievements showed innovation and the desire to strive for excellence during the Late Middle
Nobles were vassals of the monarchs and were required to provide them with armored knights in time of war, and their economic and social position were from those of their ancestors, in return for supporting and training the knights so that they were able to serve in a royal army. The Hundred Years War was the long conflict between the King of France and his vassals, which set the power of the French monarchy against his vassals, and new military technology shaped conflict because as technology on one side became more powerful, the enemy's side became stronger. The new monarchies in France and England had a great centralization of power, more clear "national" boundaries, and reliable representative institutions. Spain and Portugal's reconquest of Iberia from Muslim rule was considered a religious crusade, but in the end, the Iberian kingdoms were brought together from struggle and to keep their Christian religious zealotry high.
Conclusion:
Latin West went through a cycle of triumphs and failures. During this period, features from the modern West came together, and it was the time when Latin West changed from a region that depended on cultural and commercial flaws from the East, to a region prepared to spread its culture and enforce their power to other parts of the world.