• Two events that greatly shaped the future towards the end of middle ages.
1- The bubonic plague, or black death killed 30-60% of the population of Europe. this was 25 million people.
- The growth of cities and increase in travel between cities led to the rapid spread of this disease.
- The disease caused seemingly random devastation and caused people to question faith. In turn the power of the church suffered
2- The invention of the printing press in by Johannes Gutenberg around 1436
- The printing press was first used to print cheap copies of the