Unit 4 Summary: Middle Ages in Europe
During the Middle ages, Europe was in one of the most worst periods of time through out human history. The Middle ages, also knows as 'The Dark Ages', was a time of no innovation and no new ideas or great leaders. It was also the era when the Bubonic Plague claimed 75 million lives from the world (1/3 of the worlds population). The "Dark ages" began right after the fall of the Roman empire on the Western part. There was no government that established order in the moment of chaos so that meant there was no centralized power. As a result society fell and they needed a system to establish order and Feudalism as a result was the solution.The feudal system worked in a form of escalated social classes, each with their own responsibilities; however the one who most benefited was the the one at the top of the social system, the king, and those at the bottom whom least benefited were the Serfs . That is until the Bubonic Plague came over and wiped out most of, if not , all of the workers, which made feudalism collapse. The pope no longer had power and the small settlements established could no longer sustain Subsistence agriculture.
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The fact that people didn't wash their hands or take good showers made it easier for disease to spread around from one person to 10 people in less than a week. This number then became 75 million as people had no idea why people were getting ill and dying.