Middle ages!!!?

Dark ages, age of faith, age of feudalism, or a golden age??


this is a final exam question and i cant think of anything..can you help me out?
Middle ages!!!?
feudilism maybe
Middle ages!!!?
it was the Dark Age. A time when barbarians conquered.


it does depend on the time period in the Middle Ages
Reply:Dark ages
Reply:That's a very broad topic. My guess is that your teacher wants you to discuss each of the four topics (dark ages, faith age, feudalism, golden age). Then compare and contrast and finally, select which of these four best describes the middle ages, in your opinion. FYI... there is no wrong answer.
Reply:The Dark Ages an age of faith, feudalism and the start of a golden age. This era in history was a dark and difficult time for any person because the order that the Roman Empire seech to be and was under the rule of barbarians. As the barbarians took over they kept most of what people had intact but led to a time of dispear. To this the age of faith was upon many in Europe as the Holy Roman Church became the savior that saved Europe during this time of darkness. They led in converting people to become faithful catholics who followed the commandments and all the nine yards. It is from them that writing was reestablished by 1000 A. D . for they were the only ones who knew how to read and write. Most people were illiterate in these times. As well with this the Church went through hardships of problems in the church, the black death, and of the Crusades to save the Holy lands from teh Muslims.





Feudalism became a part of Europe by 600-700 A.D. in which they made the system where people were judged upon there place in society. It is from this system that the ideals of Kings was created, the age of knights began and the spirit of giving thanks to your master for homage of the wheat given or food that they gave to you. Many wars were fought over petty squabbles but this became that age.





As the dark ages started to conclude and the age before the Renaissance comes, the start of the golden age was upon Europe. I wrote this sentence because most historians see the 1100-1300 as inbetween period or bewteen the dark ages and the renaissance but I think the three decades go hand in hand with each other. Pretty much what happened from 800 unward continues til the 1200-1300 A.D. when the world starts to reunite itself in reading, the arts, and a rebirth in learning. So from this dark time, it led to age of promishent of the golden age from the Crusades and from the future of countries and wars fought between each other.





Hear is some ideas or things you may use in your essay for the dark ages, hope some of this information has provided some help in your quest for a good essay. Hope you do well.
Reply:It sounds like your professor wants you to see the bigger picture of European history than the traditional historoc model of Europe; in which the classical era, Dark Ages, Middle Ages, Renaissance, and the Modern era. That is because there are quite a few misomners about the middle ages.





The Dark Ages were called Dark simply because there were so few written records of the period that historians traditionally knew very little about it. However, modern Archeology has given what literature has not, and now the more accurate term for this era is the Migration era. The Migration era was a very warlike time, however, by the time the Migrations ended, around 800 CE, Europe became quite peaceful.





The age of faith is true in that the Augustinian traditions of Christianity However, to say that the age of faith solely existed in the Middle ages is false: there is considerable overlap. As far back as 300 A.D, Rome controlled Europe became fanatically religious, and it wasn't until the age of enlightenment that religion as a whole began to decline





The age of Feudalism is very similar to faith in that there was overlap in each era. Romans organized themselves into a feudalistic state as their economy collapsed, a process which took place over the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries. Feudalism was the dominant economic system in Europe until the 19th century, with the Industrial Revolution and the French revolution, and didn't die out completely until Feudal Russia was conquered by the Bolsheviks in the 1910's.





Golden Age? Well, that is a stretch, because the common person, for much of history, lived quite miserable lives. Standards of living improved little over the millenia, as a farmer in 1700s France would not have felt out of place in Ancient Egypt. Conditions for the working man were slightly better in the high Roman era, as it was peaceful and trade was abundant, but standards of living for your average person really didn't start to improve until the industrial revolution.