Changes In Medieval Europe

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Changes in object can be quite observable, making the changes occurring in an object pretty straight forward. For example, if you drop the glass, it breaks down into little pieces. Dropping the glass on the surface was the reason. By glass hitting the surface, the energy gave power that is too much for glass to maintain itself causing the breakdown. However, changes in histories are not that simple. Nevermind the fact that history is “His story,” making some of records unreliable, usually influences caused by multiple things comes up to make something bigger and more influential. For this paper we like to bring this idea to our table. We strongly believe that many aspects in medieval Europe made many advancements at that period. First, the

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