History: The Most Significant Events In The Middle Ages

Final #6 During semester in History 255 a lot of topics were brought up that were interesting and gave people something to enjoy when discussed. Many events were significant in the middle ages since they would follow into present time or long enough to make a difference. Event such as wars and death shaped the world people live in today, from decisions that affected all kinds of lives and the future of those people. Events such as the Bubonic plague, The Crusades, and Christianity. These events didn’t have to be good but they were significant enough to change how things happened to the people of today. The ideas and new advancements that these events brought to humans, and even catastrophe. The Bubonic plague was a significant event since it brought danger to the European people, with the deaths of so many people. This changed the way people saw things as they didn’t know if they would or …show more content…
This also brought about all kinds of theories and new ways of trying to treat the bubonic plague, such to stop the infection with the scent of a flower. Some physicians even began to investigate the human body more to try and find the core of the disease, but due to the short coming of the people that had fallen ill with the disease it brought different factions together to have the rights of the dead passed. This included handling the bead even if they were not a part of such a faction or clan, with no hearsay of any sort. This was due to the amount of dead that they had to handle, the social effects of seeing so many dead from a single disease could change how people behaved permanently. Another reason this event was significant in European history is that it changed some of the landscape for the survivors of the plague, they had a labor shortage so serfs began to fill the cities trying to find work and rebuild from what they had