Middle+Ages+Artifacts

Medival Map of Jerusalem. 1099. ////ABC-CLIO:World History////. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. . Persecution of Men Accused of Spreading Plague. N.d. ////ABC-CLIO:World History////. Web. 25 Feb. 2010. . Pisano, Andrea. ////Ploughing////. N.d. ////ABC-CLIO: World History////. Web. 18 Feb. 2010. . Type in the content of your page here.
 * [[image:http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/Images/DBImages/1065/1065549w.jpg width="213" height="266" align="top" caption="Title: Medieval map, Jerusalem"]] || [[image:http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/Images/DBImages/6627/662712w.jpg width="231" height="272" align="top" caption="Title: Persecution of men accused of spreading plague"]] || [[image:http://www.ancienthistory.abc-clio.com/Images/DBImages/6672/667284w.jpg width="272" height="294" align="top" caption="Title: Ploughing (Pisano)"]] ||
 * This Map of Jerusalem from Robert the Monk's Chronicle of the Crusades shows the Holy Land that the Christians from Western Europe sought to recapture from the Muslims during the crusades. The crusades left a long history of religious intolerance in Europe, but it also gave the people of those days who did not travel often a broader worldwide view. The Crusades also improved trade among the Middle East and Europe improving the economy.With more trade going on and a bigger need to transport goods and people, navigation and shipbuilding improved. The crusades also gave more power to feudal lords, because it gave them the power to levy taxes in order to support the crusades. || This illustration show the persecution of men accused of infecting others with the bubonic plague in Milan,Italy. The plague, otherwise known as the black death, was a history changing event that killed an estimated 25 million people in Europe. The disease would kill anyone infected with it within days and it spread quickly. At the time the cure was not known and it seemed that nobody was safe. It hit everyone form the rich kings and nobles to the poor. It affected the young and the old. Those who were still alive where panicked. They would abandon family members who had the plague tying to save themselves and many people, feeling that they would not live much longer, tried to live in the moment and experience anything they could. Naturally, people turned to the government and the church to keep them safe, but both had been affected by the plague and could not give them affective leadership. As a result many people began to question their faith. During the plague there was not as much demand for goods and services, and after the plague inflation, which is the rising of prices, occurred because of the lack of workers. Less workers meant less land being cultivated, less products being produced and services became more valuable. Soon to keep their workers under their control, governments passed laws preventing workers from getting higher pay or moving to a different area. This lead to long term social unrest among the workers, possibly contributing to the Peasant's Revolt of 1381. || This artifact is a relief of farmers working their land with a plow.The plow was one of the earliest and most important agricultural inventions and was refined during the middle ages. Because of the refined plow and the new idea of crop rotation, more crops were produced so there was more food and more available food meant a growth in population. This population growth lead to the expansion of towns and cities. This agricultural revolution made life easier for the majority of the people living in the middle ages who were farmers that struggled to produce enough food. ||