Back in the olden times of the Medieval Era the Church was more of a government than the actual government. “Every person was required to live by the Church laws and pay heavy taxes to support the Church,” stated in Document 3. Not only this but people actually paid their way into getting knowledge of how to get everlasting life and happiness and well and special favors or to be certain of a place in heaven. Along with this here was a code to follow seeming to represent laws in a way, which can be found in document 5, known as the Code of Chivalry. Almost every person believed the laws and teachings of the Church and from this, it became very powerful. With this power, it was able to influence kings to do as it wanted. Doesn’t really sound very religious to me... With this information, is can be determined that the factors of SPICE included in this are mainly Cultural, with the religion, belief systems, and ideologies, as well as Political because the Church was basically a form of …show more content…
Along with that, each idea comes with some form of SPICE to describe it even further. One important question that comes with almost everything we learn from the past is, how has this all affected the world we live in today? Obviously, the world today is not based on a Feudalism system but really, what was it that caused that change? Just maybe I’ll be back, writing another paper about