Middle Ages Feudalism
The middle ages should be considered an age of darkness because of the large amounts of poverty, slavery, and disease. The black death killed a very large portion of the European population, Charlemagne’s divided empire was subject to attacks, and peasants were forced into working for vassals on large portions of land. The introduction of feudalism brought the concept of separating large portions of land to lesser lords called vassals. This was significant in that it brought vassals who “pledged service and loyalty to the greater lord.” This relationship between the vassals and lords was based on the exchange of lands for loyalty and military service; or the feudal contract. The lords granted these vassals with a large portion of land, also
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The disease was spread through contact with infected fleas. As a result of the poor living conditions in many parts the Europe, the fleas would nest on rats who would run through the streets. Just having contact with an infected individual would possibly cause immediate infection. This resulted in 25 million deaths in the course of 5 years. The bodies of the dead were still able to spread the disease with contact, the amount of bodies helped to spread the disease farther and farther. The time in which the disease took to infect and kill varied by location; a city with over 100,000 people would take 8 weeks for the entire population to become infected. With an 80% rate of death, the chance of survival was slim to none. This resulted in mass amounts of death and population losses in the millions. The Fall of the Roman Empire was a very unsightly and dangerous fall on Europe. Many blame the fall of Rome on the introduction of Christianity in many parts. As a result of Christianity spreading around much of Europe, many people became pacifists, making it so fighting off attacking German barbarians was much harder. With these attacks came destruction with the roads that were once seen as a passage to trade, now destroyed and unusable. Many Roman achievements crumpled under these attacks, becoming nothing but piles of
The disease was spread through contact with infected fleas. As a result of the poor living conditions in many parts the Europe, the fleas would nest on rats who would run through the streets. Just having contact with an infected individual would possibly cause immediate infection. This resulted in 25 million deaths in the course of 5 years. The bodies of the dead were still able to spread the disease with contact, the amount of bodies helped to spread the disease farther and farther. The time in which the disease took to infect and kill varied by location; a city with over 100,000 people would take 8 weeks for the entire population to become infected. With an 80% rate of death, the chance of survival was slim to none. This resulted in mass amounts of death and population losses in the millions. The Fall of the Roman Empire was a very unsightly and dangerous fall on Europe. Many blame the fall of Rome on the introduction of Christianity in many parts. As a result of Christianity spreading around much of Europe, many people became pacifists, making it so fighting off attacking German barbarians was much harder. With these attacks came destruction with the roads that were once seen as a passage to trade, now destroyed and unusable. Many Roman achievements crumpled under these attacks, becoming nothing but piles of