​Church is life!

​the only real stability in life of medeval europe

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​the catholic church dominates the culture across europe at the time

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​one of the only things that grows and prospers durring middle ages

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​Pope had the authority to even overrule kings (at least in the western europe region)

​Feudal system

​this was the economic and social structure of middle ages europe

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​small regional kingdoms controlled monarch and by large estate holders (nobles)

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​peasants worked and lived on these plantation like sites

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​not a great system but stable and simple

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​Everyone provides services to the others.

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​Byzantine empire (in blue)

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​Great Schism

​trade

​ITALIAN MERCHANTS GET VERY POWERFUL AND WEALTHY IN 1300s

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​MOST GOODS COMING VIA THE SILK ROAD

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​QUALITY ITEMS TOOK A LONG TIME TO AQUIRE BECAUSE EVERYTHING IS HAND MADE PLUS VERY EXPENSIVE

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​ONLY THE VERY WEALTHY COULD LIVE CONSUMER LIFESTYLES AND EVEN THEY WERE LIMITED BY TECHNOLOGY AND TIME

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