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The Middle Age - Coggle Diagram
The Middle Age
Culture
Religion
The Middle Ages were a time of great religiosity. The Church played a very important role in the cultural production of the time, maintaining the cultural tradition of antiquity and playing an important educational role.
Arquitecture
In architecture, two artistic styles followed each other during the Middle Ages: Romanesque and Gothic, both expressing predominantly religious feelings. Romanesque was a sober and austere style, with wide walls and small openings. From the thirteenth century the Gothic begins to prevail, so called because it is the art derived from the Goths. The Gothic was fundamentally an urban art characterized by the construction of large cathedrals that were distinguished by their marked vertical
Economy
Christian, Muslim and Byzantine culture.
Economic activities.
How they were organized.
The main activity was agriculture, feudalism was the system that organized the economy. Having land was what made men rich. The main source of wealth was gold.
Politics
Feudalism is the economic, political and social system of the Christian kingdoms of the Middle Ages characterized by the division of society into three great estates: nobility, clergy and peasantry.
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Clergy
They were the people who were part of the Church. It includes priests, bishops, archbishops and the pope
Peasantry
They were poor people that worked on farms. The majority of them worked in the land of the nobles; only few owned their land and were free to decide who to work for or with.
Chronology
It is the historical period of Western civilization between the fifth and fifteenth centuries. Conventionally, its beginning is located in the year 476 with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and its end in 1492 with the discovery of America,1 or in 1453 with the fall of the Byzantine Empire, a date that has the singularity of coinciding with the invention of the printing press – publication of the Gutenberg Bible – and with the end of the Hundred Years' War.
In the Middle Ages, there were 3 great civilizations
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Society
The society were divided in different categories, from the king or soldiers to normal people or plebeians