Chivalry throughout the Middle Ages identified men of similar status such as knights and nobles, merchants and clergy, in the same manner.
During the 1200s, the Mongols would ultimately create the largest territorial empire ever to have existed in world history.
Perhaps one of the most tragic episodes of Mongolian expansion was its conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate. The pillaging of its capital city in 1258 led to the destruction of the House of Wisdom, a great intellectual and scholarly center.
powerful families claimed local churches, monastaries, and church positions as their own property.
The Renaissance is part of the era that historians call the "medieval" period.
Under Pope Clement VI, the papacy lost much of its moral authority because the Pope sold spiritual benefits for money and engaged in sexual transgressions.
It was only in the thirteenth century, when Europeans began to sail into the Atlantic Ocean, that they began to trade in African gold.
Chivalry throughout the Middle Ages identified men of similar status such as knights and nobles, merchants and clergy, in the same manner.
During the 1200s, the Mongols would ultimately create the largest territorial empire ever to have existed in world history.
Perhaps one of the most tragic episodes of Mongolian expansion was its conquest of the Abbasid Caliphate. The pillaging of its capital city in 1258 led to the destruction of the House of Wisdom, a great intellectual and scholarly center.
powerful families claimed local churches, monastaries, and church positions as their own property.
The Renaissance is part of the era that historians call the "medieval" period.
Under Pope Clement VI, the papacy lost much of its moral authority because the Pope sold spiritual benefits for money and engaged in sexual transgressions.
It was only in the thirteenth century, when Europeans began to sail into the Atlantic Ocean, that they began to trade in African gold.