The Age

Warfare during the medieval era was a huge shift from earlier warfare with new technology and tactics. The Middle Ages was a time of constant threat from foreign invaders. Due to all these threats, people took as many defensive precautions as possible as well as utilize new weaponry. Due to all the brand new military innovations, many historians differ on what change was the most important in the advancement of war. Some focus on weaponry and the development of cavalries while others focus on…

With 7 billon plus people on the earth coming and going there is a wide range of age from being young to being an elder. With an ever-growing population that continues to age it creates problems in the economy and society. As people tend to get older it becomes much harder for the older population to perform certain tasks that jobs would require such as speed. For some elders they start to lose mental capabilities crating struggles not for them but families as well. With the youth when entering…

When someone brings up the Middle Ages in a conversation or in a history lesson, people usually think of brave and handsome knights fighting dragons and rescuing princesses from castles. Though knights were prominent in the Middle Ages, they were not the most important part of them by far. That honor goes to the authors of the Middle Ages. One of the reasons knight tales are well known is because the authors of the Middle Ages made those tales so grand. They were not just great story tellers,…

An air of gloominess surrounds the Middle Ages, from the weariness of everyday people’s lives, to the battles and wars fought by knights. ”There is something dark and wintry about the atmosphere of the later Middle Ages”-Lytton Strachey. This period, after the fall of the western Roman Empire and before the Renaissance, was when no progress was made in culture or education because of the lack of a central government. This crisis in the government caused people to focus their attention on…

The Age Struggle In our day and age, as we age we gain experience in our fields of work getting better and better with each exposure. However, as we age we might gain something else as well, age discrimination. With each year that passes employers give older people less attention often preferring younger employees because they are “faster” and more “creative”. This Reasoning is flawed in that employees are rather hard to completely set in one category some may be young and filled with energy but…

Art in the Middle Ages 3 The Influence of Art in the Middle Ages Art is in a constant state of change, modernized every day, and this has been true since the dawn of artistry. Culture inspires artwork, people have always depicted the world around them. For medieval persons the culture that surrounded them was that of either religion or of the gruesome wars their kings fought. In the span of the Middle Ages art transforms to a more prominent degree that leads the public to have a higher…

Age Of Exploration; Heroic or Heinous? I woke up late that Monday morning, basking in the fact that there was no school. It was early October, and the stress of fourth grade was really getting to me. Christopher Columbus was a man I thought I would be forever grateful for and as far as I was concerned, Columbus was wonderful, exploration was wonderful, and this day off was extra wonderful. But just how thankful should I really have been? Hidden behind the great accomplishments explorers have…

The Middle Ages (500-1500A.D.), commonly referred to as the Dark Ages or the Medieval Times, was an era of growth, art, architecture, Church dominance, and a feudalistic society. Innovation and development were major aspects of this time period. Major steps were developed in the fields of warfare and medicine that drastically changed the course of history. More well-known medieval inventions and developments include the printing press and the adoption of gunpowder. However, this paper focuses on…

The age of exploration was a time full of learning and profitable trade. During the Renaissance, learning about math, science, and english become more important. People had a drive to learn and be able to read. The Renaissance effected the Age of Exploration by advancing technologies, bringing wealth to monarchs, and having religious freedom. Navigation and exploration was not an easy task. Having technologies that could guide oneself were important. The ships also had to be sturdy and able to…

Women strived for a long stretch of freedom, when society weighed women down. Women were easily misjudged throughout the middle ages, but proved that women were powerful, and more than capable of doing equal amount of work as the men. The government made and changed all important decisions, but in the middle ages, the women were the people that changed the government. In order for women to get to where they needed to be, women had to go through obstacles that were behind the scenes.Women changed…