Why didn't everyone prosper during the middle ages?

Answer 1

No, not everyone prospered in the Middle Ages. For example, many people were starving and poor. Also, the Jews did not prosper because the Christians treated them harshly. They were targets of violence, their lords took their land whenever, and the only job they could have was money lending and banking. Christians were forbidden to do this job because they were taught by the church that charging money for loans would make God look down upon them and curse them.

Answer 2

No. There were people in the Middle Ages who did not prosper. In fact there were people who did not prosper in every age in history.

Answer 3

No, about 90% of the people were poor, hungry, worked for a fedual lord, paid taxes and were killed either by war or disease.

Answer 4

No. The majority of the people were very poor with about 10% who were doing really well off the labor of the poor.

Answer 5

About 90% of the population were serfs and owed their lives to the manor. There wasn’t a system to improve life if you were born into serfdom and many died young fighting the nobility wars.