The Middle Ages
Early Middle Ages 476-1000 C.E.
High Middle Ages 1000-1300 C.E
-King/Queen gave land to nobles for military service
-Peasants served noble
Late Middle Ages 1300-1450 C.E
- Middle Ages began in the west
- Europe was lost when the Roman Empire fell, because the Romans unified them
- Everyone spoke different languages
- No travelers/traders could travel by the roads, because of thieves and the terrible shape of the roads
- Force was the law
- The Byzantine Empire survived Rome's fall
High Middle Ages 1000-1300 C.E
- Everything was stabilized by the High Middle Ages
- England, France, the Papal States, and the Holy Roman Kingdom formed west
- Most people lived by the economic and political system call Feudalism
-King/Queen gave land to nobles for military service
-Peasants served noble
Late Middle Ages 1300-1450 C.E
- Everything changed in the Late Middle Ages
- Trade flowed more
- People moved from country side to towns
- A series of famines and disease followed (example; Bubonic Plague, Great Famine of 1315-1327)
- The population was reduced to half of what it was before the calamities
- Because of the population's sudden drop, social unrest and endemic warfare followed
Medieval Europe's Climates
-Semiarid
-Subtropical dry summer
-Humid subtropical
-Humid oceanic
-Jumid continental
-High land
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-Subtropical dry summer
-Humid subtropical
-Humid oceanic
-Jumid continental
-High land
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