How Did The Decline Of The High Middle Ages

Luke VerMeulen Ms. Kramer CPA World History 11 September 2015 The Superior Labels for the Middle Ages The Middle Ages: death, faith, and feudalism. The Middle Ages, an era between 500 and 1400 in Europe has many ups and downs, falls and beginnings. Although we are looking for the most profound.

There is no question that hardship and scattering fear re-shaped the Europeans during the 14th century. To the Europeans, they were the generation that faced the true wrath of god. It was this rather that consumed them religiously, culturally, and economically. It is for these reasons, that the Europeans faced their downfall during this century at no fault of their own. Disasters have struck throughout history, but none so consequential or sparse and quickly as the Black Death of the 14th century.

Many European courts and governments during the 14th century had collapsed at the beginning of the Great Famine and the outbreak of the Hundred Years’ War. Although these great events happened during the outbreak of the Black Death, they did not heavily affect on the population of Europe. For instance, the Great Famine of 1315, that had lasted only two years, had just killed a tenth of the population of Ypres (currently called Flanders) (maps.google.com). People in Halesowen (now currently called England) were dying and were scared that many of their relatives were dying. They were feeling very depressed as if it was the end of the world, because their population had greatly dropped by 15% during that period.

Europe in the fifteen hundreds was a dangerous, local, hierarchic, tradition-bound, slow moving, and poor filled with the tasks of providence, salvation and community. Europe during the fifteen hundreds were a dangerous place; disease, famine, and violence all prevented the population of the era to live a long life. One of the major killers during the time was disease. Disease and plagues killed major parts of the population, the bubonic plague, for example, claimed the lives of perhaps a third of Europe’s population in five years.

When the Black Death broke out, people started living their lives differently. Some avoided others to prevent sickness, others continued to live their lives free. Some even blamed the Avignon papacy for the plague and warfare that was occurring. While the Black Death was impacting people’s lives, the Hundred Years’ War was going on at the same time. During the late Middle Ages, women started to become more involved.

One of the largest conflicts of the time was the Hundred Years War. The Hundred years war was a series of conflicts from 1337 until 1453 over which country had the right to the throne of France, the English or the French. After William of Normandy conquered England and his family retained control of the country it became a thought of the English monarchs that they had a right to the French throne through William. England had caused some problems for themselves in the war earlier with the signing of the Magna Carta. The magna carta was signed by king john on June 15, 1215 and was meant to make peace between the king and a group of rebel barons, by signing this the kings of England would lose some of the power they had and would affect them during the war.

Near the end of the 16th century France, England and the Netherlands were competing with Spain and Portugal for supremacy. During this rivalry competition meant war. The main reason for war during this time was trade centres between France and Great Britain. Overtime the expansion of North American colonies collided with French territory. French territory stretch around Great Britain 's territory which stood way in the expansion of Great Britain 's colonies.

The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries saw a transition of Western Europe, when a series of inspiring historical events took place, such as the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Scientific Revolution, the discovery of new world, and the emergence of nation-state. However, what existed in the same period were social impoverishment caused by economic development, political chaos caused by the rise of nation-state, and the religious conflict caused by the Reformation. The life of civilians was pushed to edge by the infertility of land and famine because of the climatic change. People believed that these disasters were the sabotage of devil and his servants, who used thunder, hail, frost, storm, flood, plague, pests to impair the will of God and brought

It was generally known as the Dark Ages, as it was a time of stress and confusion for both rich and poor. Without an emperor controlling them, the feudal system was created because it was thought to create order. After all, it is simply putting different people where they belong, but this was not the case, fighting and disease started to spread throughout Western Europe. One of the most popular diseases in Western Europe was the Black Death. The terrifying epidemic also called the Great Illness, existed between 1347 and 1351, lasting 4 whole years.

The Black Death, a plague that has caused a crisis in Western Europe. Killing approximately around two-thirds of Europe’s total population, along with famine and peasant uprisings, it caused Western Europe to change. The Christian church responded to this plague by inducing stricter obedience of faith unto the people. Causing the persecutions of other people with different religions such as Muslims and Jews. Western Europe did not follow the powerhouses of Asia, they weren’t able to use common tongue and literacy to unite the people.

This was a result of the constant invasions from the Vikings, Muslims, and Magyars; kings couldn't defend their lands and people no longer looked to a central ruler for security (Doc 7). The Northmen, Vikings, plundered, then burned, towns; most of Europe was an easy target after Rome fell. Also, Charlemagne's three feuding grandsons broke apart Europe and defense became weak (Doc 8). The following reasons support the Dark Ages as being the best label to describe the medieval

Waves of invaders swept across the region , trade slowed to a trickle, towns emptied and classical learning virtually ceased. For those reasons this period in Europe has sometimes been

In the 1400s, a lot of countries, specifically Spain, France, Italy and England, were all opposed to each other, considering each other rivals for power in Europe. For example, during a French invasion in 1494, Italians worked together to prevent the French from taking over. Also, as a result of the Hundred Years War, France and England were each strengthened by the conflict. In France, the feeling of danger and oppression united the people. In England, the war with France lead to the rise of the Tudor dynasty.

Knights, castles, warfare is one way to describe the way of the Middle Ages of Europe. During the Middle Ages many wars like the Crusades I, II, III, and IIII were some of biggest wars and most famous that happened in Europe’s history along with the black Death being the biggest disease at the time. These events happened in Jerusalem, France, Damascus, Syria, Israel, Istanbul, and Turkey on November 18th, 1096-1099, 1147-1149, and 1189-1192. Many people died during these events, but also many other people grew like Richard the lionheart. Also many artistic items like certain buildings are still standing in Europe today that have led to more artistic creations.

When Rome had collapsed the world had went into the middle ages. In the middle ages most of Europe was divided between lords and princes. They would rule the more local land and the people who lived on it. In order to defend themselves they built their homes as castles. These were in the center of the land that they ruled.