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Medieval Europe

During the Middle Ages in Europe: - Western Europe was divided into feudal states ruled by lords and kings, with castles and walled cities dominating the landscape. - Christianity spread throughout Europe and became one of the most powerful institutions, controlling publications and lawmaking. Medieval art and architecture were directly connected to the Christian church. - The Crusades exposed Europeans to other cultures, bringing back new ideas, architecture styles, stories, and medical advances. Trade also introduced plagues like the Black Death that killed one-third of Western Europe's population. - Near-constant warfare ravaged the region from the 11th to 15th centuries. Notable developments included the printing press

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Medieval Europe

During the Middle Ages in Europe: - Western Europe was divided into feudal states ruled by lords and kings, with castles and walled cities dominating the landscape. - Christianity spread throughout Europe and became one of the most powerful institutions, controlling publications and lawmaking. Medieval art and architecture were directly connected to the Christian church. - The Crusades exposed Europeans to other cultures, bringing back new ideas, architecture styles, stories, and medical advances. Trade also introduced plagues like the Black Death that killed one-third of Western Europe's population. - Near-constant warfare ravaged the region from the 11th to 15th centuries. Notable developments included the printing press

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The Dark Ages. That's one of the terms used to describe nearly 1000 years of history-a
history that is often hard to understand due to a lack of surviving documents, and often is
clouded by myth and legends. Western Europe was under the rule of hundreds of feudal
lords and kings. Castles dominated the landscape, and entire cities were built behind
protective walls.
The Roman Empire formally legalized Christianity during the 4th century, and soon
afterward, the zeal and evangelism of practitioners spread this faith throughout Western
Europe as far west as Ireland. The Church would be one of the most powerful medieval
institutions, controlling publication of books and the making of laws. Much of medieval
Europe's art and architecture has a direct connection to the Christian church.
Knights, soldiers, peasants and pilgrims marched along European roads and trails during the
Crusades and brought back with them stories of differing cultures, and began to adopt their
architecture, tales of Romance, and advances in medicine. Trade was both a blessing and
curse. Merchants began importing silks, cottons and rare spices from all over the known
world. But these ships would also bring the horror that became known as the Black Death.
The disease ravaged Asia, before wiping out nearly one-third of Western Europe.
Wars took their toll, from William the Conqueror's invasion of England in 1066, to the
Hundred Year's War that ended in 1453, there were few years that didn't see battles raging in
some part of Europe. This was an era of siege warfare-catapults, trebuchets, battering rams,
and towers. Men fought hand-to-hand in the thousands in bloody conflicts using swords,
axes, longbows, crossbows, stones and daggers. Medieval Europe saw some humanity-
changing developments, such as Gutenberg's moveable types press in the middle of the 15th
century. This would bring printed material to the masses, and improve communication
between societies. Marco Polo would popularize the account of his voyage to the Orient,
and intrigue Europeans about this exotic land.
Through these centuries, Europe was slowly waking from a harsh slumber, and begin to sow
the seeds of a Renaissance

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