This willingness to be ruled by the lords led to the beginnings of feudalism. When the empire fell, there were no laws protecting them, so they turned to the lords to keep the peace and to act on their behalf. The people thought that fate ruled their existence therefore, there was little hope for improving their condition.ĭuring the years of the Roman Empire, the poor people were protected by the soldiers of the emperor. North Africa, the Middle East, China, India and other parts of the world were experiencing great changes. It should be noted that other parts of the world were thriving in this era. Greeks thought foreigners spoke unintelligibly like barking dogs (bar-bar-bar) - hence the term 'barbarian." (Western Reserve) Society has no longer any government." (Doc 1) "The barbarians were not all primitive, nor were they barbarian. The peasant has abandoned his ravages fields to avoid the violence of anarchy. There is no longer any trade, only unceasing terror. They burned down the churches and then departed with a crowd of captives. they sacked town and village, and laid waste in the fields. THe Hungarians swarm over the Eastern provinces. The Saracen invasions have spread in successive waves over the South.
"The barbarians have broken through the ramparts. The barbarians were prevalent in most of the European nations of the Middle Ages. The principal features of the Renaissance were that learning became important, the lords and the church were both becoming powerful forces for change, the art world was flourishing with innovations like the development of perspective in painting and there was great advancement in science. The end of the Middle Ages in about 1450 led to the beginning of the Renaissance. The Middle Ages is believed to have started with the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 and to have lasted about 1,000 years until about 1450. The Middle Ages should be labeled as the Age of Feudalism because this dispersed system dominated and influenced the political, social, and economical aspects of Western Europe.
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