Homework Help 1# The Middle Ages

Hi internet friends! How's the day going? I have practiced piano and went to get thai food. I love you Thai food. It's Wednesday which means I will be helping you study for that test tomorrow on the Middle Ages.

The middle ages, or sometimes called the dark ages were I time that nothing was really going on in Europe. No culture or humanism or art, the world was a boring place to be. But was it really that bad and dark? If you consider no real culture bad than yes, it was bad, but if you consider war and dying bad then the dark ages was a great time. What I mean by that was after the fall of the Roman Empire the life expectancy went up and there was no major wars and conquering. So it is all a matter of opinion.

Let's now explore the government and economy of the middle ages. Well, in the dark ages people used feudalism. What is feudalism? Great questions. It was a system of which the King stood at the top and below him where Lords and Priests. Below them were the knights that showed loyalty to the king in exchange for land. Below the knights were their vassels which would cultivate the knights land and give them a portion of the food they cultivated in exchange for safety and land. And the vassals would have vassals and so on and so on until you hit the lowest stage of this system, the servants which were basically the lowest form of vassal.  So basically that's how it worked at the time of middle ages. Nothing extremely interesting or major until the black plague attacked and killed almost half of Europe, tune in next week for information on the black plague which changed Europe in more than one way.

Have any questions about the middle ages? Leave them in the section below. Remember to read tomorrow for my opinions on music!!!!