A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE MIDDLE AGES! (please help will give 10 points to best answer!)?

Question

What two reasons ended the Bubonic Plague?

At what age did people attend universities?

Due to rural conditions, the Church built religious communities called?

Why did learning decline during the last years of the Roman Empire?

What were the forces holding a feudal society together?

i did read the book.. the book is right in front of me right now. i just can't seem to find the answers

nvm i got all the answers! ill give 10 points to whoever matches my answers. so far no one has gotten it

Answer 1

Hi! Do you want pat answers or real answers? You should be aware that much of what has been taught about the middle ages for the past couple centuries in now being reconsidered. A lot of new research is being done and the biased answers of the Enlightenment are not just being accepted at face value anymore.

That said, here are my answers:

1. Bubonic Plague - Bubonic Plague affected Rome in the late days of the Empire and has reared it's ugly head from time to time since then. It has never completely been irradicated. For years people believed that the "Black Death" that swept Europe in the 14th century, killing more than a third of the population was Bubonic Plague, but now scholars aren't so sure. I attended a lecture on this very topic last April.

After the initial outbreak in 1347, successively smaller waves of the Plague re-visited Europe, the last being the Great Plague of London which hit in the winter of 1665-1665. To be honest, we don't really know why it ended, although one theory is that the Great Fire of London in 1666 killed the last of the plague-bearing rats.

If the Plague was not Bubonic, and the fleas on rats were not responsible, other theories include varieties of anthrax (which swept Europe because immunity was low, and thus ended when everyone either died or developed immunity) or a virus similar to Ebola, which simply burnt itself out. An interesting side note has come to light in the Human Genome project: if you had an ancestor who contracted the plague that caused Black Death but SURVIVED, then you have almost a 100% immunity to the AIDS virus.

2. There was no set age. When a person had completed the Trivium (preparatory arts of grammar, rhetoric, and logic) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), they were considered ready for university. That could be as young as 14 or 15 or as old as 19 or 20. They would stay until they completed a Bachelor program, the length of which varied from university to university.

3. This is a bad question, because it has a build in assumption: that the Church build monestaries *because of* rural conditions. I don't believe that to be true. Monestaries were often purposely built in rural, or wilderness areas, on the principle that separated from the distractions of city life, the monks and nuns would be better able to focus on God (incidently, the same reason Jean-Jacque Rousseau gave for building universities in rural areas - so students could focus on their studies). However, monestaries were also built in or near cities and towns.

4. A question about the Roman Empire is not really a question about the middle ages! Also, I disagree with the question. Learning did not decline; its focused changed, which is very different. In fact, speaking in terms of percentage of total population, there were actually more literate people during the middle ages than during the Roman era. LIkewise, technology continued to grow and improve during the middle ages.

Horses, for instance, the Romans only had the barest idea of shoeing horses to protect their feet (some emperors put removable "sandles" on their horses) and generally Roman horses were unshod. In the so-called "Dark Ages" European learned to shoe horses, invented stirrups and molded saddles, and learned to harness horses, rather than just yoking them like oxen, all of which allowed horses to be better utilized for farming, commerce and war. This is an *increase* in learning, not a decrease.


5. Fealtly was was the main force that held feudal society together. Each tier held their land or obligations in fief to the tier above. The peasant, or baron or knight would swear fealty (oaths of loyalty and service) to his lord or king, and the lord in turn would swear oaths of protection and justice to his subjects.


I bet my answers don't match your book.

Answer 2

Not sure about the first one, but...

2.) Charlemagne built some of the first universities of the middle ages...I think, but there were Greek academies long before Charlemagne's grandmother was coming of age.

3.) I guess this refers to monasteries, but I could be wrong.

4.) The Roman empire never really "fell" it sort of bled into the dark ages, becoming more and more German and less Roman. I would say that this transition started in the third century A.D. There was even a Roman emperor in 235 who barley spoke Latin. The decline in learning was probably because the barbarian cultures that migrated into the dying Roman empire did not value literature and all that good stuff as much as the Romans.

5.) This is certainly not the best of answers, but I would say that the strength of the lower orders (vassals) made it hard for a king to exercise complete and absolute control over every square inch of his domain, thus keeping the distinct social hierarchy of feudal Europe.

Answer 3

Without "googling" I can help with the last two somewhat:
Decline of learning in the last years of the Roman Empire was mostly due to the fact that the empire was being overrun by goths, visigoths, huns, etc. The empire was too big to defend and people were concentrating on the basics of life, such as staying alive, and had no time for "book learning".

What held feudal societies together? Peasants counted on feudal lords for protection from invaders and for a plot of land to grow food on to feed their families. The feudal lords received goods and services from the peasants living on their land. Some of those peasants were "elevated" to the status soldiers/knights, who protected the lord, his land and the peasant people in return for more land and goods from the lord.

Answer 4

First Bubonic plague did not end in the middle ages. It reared its head over and over again through the years It was not till the early 1900 that a cure was developed.

Age 14

Communities

The kill off of those with knowledge

A cast system.

Answer 5

1)Primitive methods of quarantine and people were dying so fast, that the virus could not keep up and eventually ran out of people to infect in most areas.
2)Around 12, they started their studies, mind you they didn't have it anything like we do now, thats for sure.
3)Papacies
4) In the last years of the roman empire, it was at war with several empires at once, so everyone had to join the legion(military)
5)Religious bullying, Peasants didn't exactly have means of defending themselves, so fear of being killed otherwise.

Answer 6

Superman killed all the rats.

69.

Brothels.

Because everyone was afraid of the Goths and their love for that shitty band Bathouse.

Superglue and scotch tape.

Answer 7

The answers are probably in the book you were supposed to read. Check there and see what you find.

Answer 8

1. One reason was better sanitation.

Answer 9

Do your own homework.