MEDIEVAL AGE

ROME FALLS

• Rome "fell" in 476 a.d.
• No one was in charge anymore. It left a power vacuum.
• Different leaders in different parts of the world took over.
• These places would eventually be known as countries.

EUROPE

• Most of Europe used a feudal system.
• The feudal system is a political system in a pyramidal form.
• At the top is the king. At the bottom the peasants.
• In the middle are the nobles.

THE FEUDAL SYSTEM

• The peasants work for the nobles.
• Most of what they do and make is for the nobles. Very little for themselves.
• The nobles let the peasants work the land.
• The nobles give money and soldiers to the king.
• The king gives land to the nobles.

Then something happened that changed everything.

People got treated better, were paid better and had more time.

WHAT HAPPENED?

HINT:

• It killed AT LEAST 25% of the people of Europe.
• At least 25 million dead in two years.
• It's still around.

THE PLAGUE

• A bacterial disease.
• Named after the spots that formed on the victim.
• 90% of the victims died within 7 days.
• The prevention: being clean.

How does plague make peoples lives better?

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