Life in the middle ages
In European history, the Middle Ages, or Medieval period, lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. During the High Middle Ages, which began after AD 1000, the population of Europe increased greatly as technological and agricultural innovations allowed trade to flourish and the Medieval Warm Period climate change allowed crop yields to increase. Manorialism, the organization of peasants into villages that owed rent and labor services to the nobles, and feudalism, the political structure whereby knights and lower-status nobles owed military service to their overlords in return for the right to rent from lands and manors, were two of the ways society was organized in the High Middle Ages. The Crusades, first preached in 1095, were military attempts by Western European Christians to regain control of the Middle Eastern Holy Land from the Muslims. Kings became the heads of centralized nation states, reducing crime and violence but making the ideal of a unified Christendom more distant.Cultural and technological developments transformed European society, concluding the Late Middle Ages and beginning the early modern period.
The Black Plague
But the times weren't always great it was terrible when the black plague happened. The black plague was killing an estimated 75 to 200 million people and
peaking in Europe in the years 1348–50 CE. The Black Plague is thought to have started in the arid plains of central Asia, where it then traveled along the Silk Road, reaching the Crimea by 1346. From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. One in every three people died. The way the problem was solved was by the sound of music.
peaking in Europe in the years 1348–50 CE. The Black Plague is thought to have started in the arid plains of central Asia, where it then traveled along the Silk Road, reaching the Crimea by 1346. From there, it was most likely carried by Oriental rat fleas living on the black rats that were regular passengers on merchant ships. One in every three people died. The way the problem was solved was by the sound of music.