Middle Ages Accomplishments

The Middle Ages is described as the period of time in European history between the fall of Roman Empire in 476 CE until the commencement of the Renaissance period in the 14 century. During the Middle Ages, few scientific accomplishments have been made, rare great art works have been produced, great leaders were born, which people in the Middle Ages had squandered the opportunity for advancement from their predecessors. Therefore, people regard the period as a “Middle” or even a “Dark” age. The dark age is an era that was viewed as a time of war, famine, ignorance, and pandemics such as the Black Death. During the 14 century in the Renaissance period started in Florence, a cultural movement called humanism commenced to gain its impetus in

They were in the Islamic Empire to the south and east. So the knowledge of science and medicine which they were researching was learned from Islamic scientists and doctors. Due to the trade across the Mediterranean, the knowledge of science and medicine helped to spread rapidly to Italian ports like Venice and Genoa. Because of the interest of scientific observation in the Middle Ages, people then gather with Islamic scientists to learn and research together. They learned a lot about the plants and astronomy. In addition, the Islamic astronomers in Spain taught the Europeans about the use of an astrolabe. On the other hand, the Europeans had learned about the compass and the hot air balloons from the Mongols. Furthermore, an important Medieval science that appeared was alchemy, which we called chemistry nowadays. With the utilization of magical phenomenon of chemistry, the alchemist started to investigate how to live forever, or interested in turning lead into gold in order to be wealthier. Although their expectations were impossible, they still learned a lot from chemistry which can assist the human development. Nevertheless, through the Catholic churches, logic had appeared which was a significant part of the science of the Middle Ages. Men like Thomas Aquinas and Peter Abelard had learned from scholars like Ibn Rushd and Maimonides, which were both in Islamic Empire. While in mathematics, the Europeans in the Middle Ages learned about the concept of what we called Arabic numbers from India through the ship channel from west Asia to Europe. The Arabic number had led to a shift from geometry to algebra in mathematical interests. In terms of the livelihood of Europeans in the Middle Ages, they invented several new tools for agriculture. In the early Middle ages, people invented the horseshoe and a new kind of a horse harness which worked better than in the Roman Empire. Also, the