Middle Ages for Kids

Black death is the name of a terrible illness spreading from 1347 to 1350 throughout Europe. This disease is incurable and highly contagious

The plague begins in Asia and may move west along the Silk Road. This disease is caused by fleas that inhabit mice. Historians believe that black rats living on merchant ships in Europe are infected with this disease and eventually infect Europe.

It is difficult to imagine how much life there is in the Middle Ages of Black Death. By the time this disease occurs, at least a third of Europeans have died. It is estimated that about 800 people will die in Paris in France every day. Because there are so many dead, they can not fill them. They have to take them to a big hole

Unfortunately, medieval people did not know that this disease was caused by rats. This makes the bigger town very dirty in the Middle Ages, especially dangerous as there are many rats there. Sometimes towns and villages as a whole were swept away by the plague.

As you can imagine, I fall into a panic. Many people are convinced that this is the end of the world. People shut the doors and tried to hide in the house. But in a city full of rats and fleas, this is not good. They also burned homes and whole villages trying to stop the disease.

Today, we call this disease a gland plague. Today there are very few people with this disease, and most people are recovering. They almost always die when people suffer from this disease in the Middle Ages. People become sick with body and black spots and blue spots

When the black death finally subsided, most of the infrastructure in Europe disappeared. It is estimated that recovery in Europe will take about 150 years

Until years later, the plague was called black death. Some people think this is the darkening of the skin at the end of the disease, but it is more likely to be called "black" to reflect the dark and horrible time in history.

Some people think that some of the harsh air released by the earthquake caused the plague. Other people accuse the Jews by killing Christians in the plague

Another focus is the Roman Catholic church. This is the most powerful and wealthy institution in the Middle Ages. For those who like the story of a young hero, they are shocked by the story of the French teenager Joan of Ark, who inspired that angelic vision fight for her king in Orléans fight I will. The living in the fast growing city of Europe is gaining attention, and diseases that struck them like black death totally wiped out one-third of the population. Eventually, children will learn that suffocation of church and feudal society began to influence farmers, leading to the Renaissance uprising, war and new knowledge.

In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Middle Ages) lasted from the 5th century to the 15th century. It began in the autumn of the Western Roman Empire and integrated in the era of Renaissance and Discovery. The medieval period was the middle of three traditional categories in Western history: the classical era, the medieval era, and the modern era. The medieval era itself was divided into the early, middle and late medieval times. Population decline, anti-urbanization, invasion, and people's movement that began in the late stage of ancient times also continued in the early Middle Ages. Large scale movement in immigration era including various german people formed a new kingdom in the legacy of the West Roman Empire. In the 7th century, North Africa and the Middle East, formerly part of the Byzantine Empire, were dominated by the Mayan Caliphate Islamic Empire after conquering the successors of Muhammad.

The medieval society can be divided into three groups, the early middle ages, the middle aged, and the late medieval. After the collapse of the Roman Empire, medieval society continued to be brutal invasion because they occupied the ruins of the Roman Empire to start their own kingdom. Other major social changes are the rise of the Islamic empire and the spread of Christianity. In medieval times, society faced a great religious movement, but in society the society gradually became a feudal system in politics.