How did life in the medieval times affect us now?

Answer 1

The Middle Ages were profoundly important to modern society.

The spread of Christianity happened largely in the Middle Ages. At the beginning of the Middle Ages, religion was the dominant theme of the lives of literate European people, nearly all of whom lived in areas of the former Roman Empire. The Middle Ages was largely a history of how even as it spread to cover all of Europe, this dominance came to be supplanted by something else.

The basis of European Monarchy is from the Middle Ages. The parliamentary system, which supplanted or constrained the monarchy, comes from the Middle Ages.

Literacy, which was limited at best in ancient Rome and had been declining since the third century, improved in the Middle Ages, believe it or not. The first primary schools opened in the fifth century, and the systems of schools grew from that point. The oldest School in England dates from 597 AD (The King's School in Canterbury), and the first state run grammar school from 700 AD (Beverly Grammar School). Our university system comes from the Middle Ages.

The Middle Ages saw the inventions of the horse collar, which made agriculture about twice as efficient as it had been; the stirrup; the clock; rag content paper, which was needed for the printing press to be useful; the fireplace and chimney; better methods for ship building; gunpowder; cannons and muskets; practical movable type (movable type had been invented in China, but it was not practical); and the printing press, which is regarded as the final act of the Middle Ages.

The Middle Ages gave birth to the middle class.

The Middle Ages, in fact, can safely and surely be regarded as the preparation the world needed for the Renaissance, which was only the next step.

Answer 2

Medieval life introduce a number of things important to us today.

One of these was innovations in education. The first primary schools were opened in the Byzantine Empire in 425 AD, and the system remained in place until the fall of Constantinople in 1453. The Byzantines tried to see to it that a military personnel were literate. The Church opened monastic schools. The oldest state run school was opened in 700 AD in Yorkshire (then Northumberia). Alfred the Great sought to teach people in English, and to get them to read and write in English.

The rise of banking, with such families as the Medicis, and mercantilism, as can be seen in the Hanseatic League, eventually gave rise to capitalism, and those forms of government that rose in reaction to it.

The middle ages provided us with the underpinnings of our science and mathematics. The Arabic number system, algebra, alchemy giving rise to chemistry, and astronomy, with constellations of stars with Arab names, all came through the influence of interaction between Europeans and Arabs, primarily in Spain.

Answer 3

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