Between 400 AD and 1400 AD, Europe was known as the “Dark Ages,” a time of cultural decline and decay. For instance, according to, (1954). The Record of Mankind, “The chief cause of this decline was lack of a government which could keep order.” Using Maslow’s hierarchy of Needs it’s shown that if the people did not acquire their physiological needs, which in this case would be food and clothing, nothing else would matter. Particularly, if the government lacks the needed resource for its country, the people would stop following laws, this makes it harder to control. Unluckly, not only were the people hard to control, but so were the invaders. Stated from a modified excerpt from the “Annals of Xanten,” “Northmen plundered eastern and western
