FORMATIONS OF WESTERN EROUPE

FARMING INOROVMENTS

• Warmer weather
• The people start to make new innovations

INNOVATIONS

• Horse harness (easier to pull plows)
• 3 field system

RESULTS!!

• People are healthier
• Lived longer
• Increased population

TOWNS

• Increased population
• New towns developed

LIFE IN TOWNS

• Animals roamed freely
• Waste was thrown in streets
• No clean water
• Nobody regularly bathed

BUBONIC PLAUGE

• 1/3 of population died from it

GREAT SCHISM

• The French clergy did not agree with
• pope urban the 6th reforms
• French cardinals elected a new pope
• Christendom and the pope were upset

RECONQUISTA

• Spain was controlled by Muslim empires until 1100.
• Was a long effort and drive from Spain.
• Eventually all practicing Jews where caked out of
• Spain.

INQUISITION

• Tribal held by the Catholic church
• Heresy= people with different beliefs
• Spain had a huge Jew population

TORTURE

• Very common during Middle Ages