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THE BLACK DEATH The black death was one of the most disastrous event in history, therefore this event lead to the death of several people at an estimated rate of 75 to 200 million people, on the other hand the black death started in the year 1348 and ended in the year 1350-1351- 50ce. The black death was an historical disease that spread around different parts of the world. The black death initially started in Asia, afterward it hit India and lastly Persia before moving up to the Middle east, North Africa and Europe typically it moved from the south to the north over a period of time. The medieval times or the middle ages or the dark ages were the period of time between the 5th to the 16th centuries BC, Historically, this started after the fall of western roman empire, and later ended with the beginning of Italian Renaissance. The medieval times had mainly three groups of people they were the Unicorns, the Fools and the muskets. The dark ages began with the fall of the roman empire in 476AD, therefore the dark ages is now considered as the middle ages. The middle ages existed until 1000 AD. The dark ages were ages of Enlighten, Medieval times, Less trade, Less city’s, Less economic output. The dark ages were being regulated by a system of government called Feudalism, Feudalism is a the system of political organization prevailing in Europe from the 9th to about the 15th centuries Roman law having as its basis the relation of lord to vassal with all land held in fee and as chief characteristics homage, the service of tenants under arms and in court, ward ship, and forfeiture. During the reign of the dark ages the people followed the Roman law, The roman law is : the legal system of the ancient Romans that includes written and unwritten law, is based on the traditional law and the legislation of the city of Rome, and in form comprises legislation of the assemblies, resolves of the senate, enactments of the emperors, edicts of the praetors, writings of the juries consults, and the codes of the later emperors. During the roman law the pope was the richest next to the king, the king collected some money from the people’s taxes while they kept the rest. ''During the middle ages, noblewomen had no rights. They were the property of their husbands. They could not even choose their own husbands; their fathers chose for them. During the medieval times, if certain people wanted more land they would literally start a war. In the feudal system, everyone was a vassal which actually means servant, the vassals were servants to the lord, on the other hand the vassals celebrated a ceremony in which vassals would promise their loyalty to the lord which is called the HOMEAGE. Due to the awareness of the middle ages, the girls did not go to school they were being taught by their mothers how to behave and there was a strict code of behavior in the middle ages, therefore during the middle ages their way of eating meals were totally different compared to the early age, they used fingers and knives were used. During the middle ages the Catholic church ruled, during the middle ages there were some specific people or leaders called the nobility, the nobility is in a really high rank and they build their castles out of stone in the middle ages, on the other hand, some common people reigned during the middles ages they were called the peasants and the surfs and the commoners, the surfs could not leave the manor without permission, but they weren’t slaves, they stayed with the land even if it was sold to a new owner, on the other hand the peasants were free to leave the manor, but didn’t because they had no place to go, and the last of all actually the commoners, the commoners payed their taxes to the lord with the bread they made, most of the commoners could not read or write. During the middle ages the sons of the noblemen began their training for knight hood at the age of seven, at the age of fifteen(15) He will become a squire and was assigned to a knight in order to learn how to fight and behave, once a squire proved himself in battle, he became in a knight, all knights had a code called the chivalry this actually means all knights like all people had to behave in the same way. Knights proved themselves in battles, they wore shirts of mail, which was made from hundreds of thousands of chain all linked together to protect against the blow of another knights sword, the knights uses different weapons such as the ding shots( This is used to fling rocks) and also a weapon called the Catapult( this weapon is used to tear down castle walls). During the middle ages their were different mythical beasts for example the demon, the griffin, phoenix and the dragon. Bold textBold text'Italic text'--Isaac200 (talk) 04:20, 7 April 2015 (UTC)Italic text