Failure In The Middle Ages

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be. The Dark Ages would have been even darker if not for the people that changed it. Those that sparked revolution and incited rebellion in the people were the ones who faced potential failure head on and succeeded. Although, before these people sparked a new era, the Middle Ages took its toll on the people, making the people of Europe concerned with few things: survival, concerning things like food, family and well being, and the usual invasion or two. After news of the fall of the Roman Empire’s fall, barbarians from all around the North and the East all advanced into Europe, seeking their share of Europe, terrorizing the lands and overrunning the once powerful continent of Europe. All of

It all started when the Mongols attacked the Genoese by lobbing dead bodies inflicted with the Plague over walls, hoping that the Genoese would get sick and die. The Genoese fled by ship to the Sicilian port of Messina, where port authorities observed that these ships carried the dead. These “death ships” were immediately ordered out of the harbor, but it was too late. Europe would then be overrun by the Plague, which proves to be a nasty end. This incited fear into the people, as medicine was not nearly as advanced as it is today, or even during the Renaissance, and no one knew how to deal with it. Those who were religious, which was practically everyone, thought it was God’s punishment, so they started killing off people who were unfaithful, or were thought to be unfaithful. According to an excerpt from a National Geographic website, it quotes, “...the mysterious Black Death would kill more than 20 million people in Europe - almost ⅓ of Europe. (“Black Death”)” As observed, almost 70% of Europe: wiped out by the

During the Dark Ages, the Franks established Gaul in what is now mostly western Europe, re-surging power into Europe. The Catholic church was still dominant, so people sort of congregated to Gaul to be rid of the menace that was the Dark Ages. According to Ostrowski’s text, he states, “...so the spread of the Franks’ dominions had sealed Catholicism’s rule in Western Europe, as well as turning the church into one of Western Europe’s most politically influential institutions. (Ostrowski)” Although this is true, it was a very harsh and almost violent reunion, as there were persecutions for almost everything, as were the ways in the Dark