Middle+Ages+Artifacts


 * The Black Death || The First Crusade || The Hundred Years War ||
 * [[image:Black_Death.jpg width="242" height="199" align="center"]] || [[image:The_first_crusade.jpg width="196" height="203" align="center"]] || [[image:hundred_years_war.jpg width="216" height="188" align="center"]] ||
 * The drawing shows a person who has been infected by the Black Death. Economically, the plague is killing people so people lose jobs get fired and such things involving money. When people die there is no one to run a country, government town or anything like that so the political system falls. The plague is killing people which harms the social system of the middle ages at the time. || The image shows people taking over the city of Jerusalem. People die in wars which messes up the social system of the Middle ages during times. Jerusalem was captured in the year 1099 as the result of the First Crusade. Money was used to buy weapons and things used in wars to defend or help attack people, which effected the the system of the middle ages with money issues. || This picture shows the Hundred Years War. The soldiers are mostly using longbows,spears and swords. To get around faster, people are riding horses. The one of many reasons for the war was because England and France had been rivals. The war affected the Middle ages because money was being used to buy weapons and armor and such. The death of many people affected life because lives were at stake and the population was dropping for a reason of a societies downfall. ||
 * Medieval Paseant in Winter Life || Tournament ||  ||
 * [[image:Paseant_life_in_the_winter.jpg width="209" height="243" align="center"]] || [[image:tournaments_in_middle_ages.jpg width="221" height="222" align="center"]] ||  ||
 * This is an illustration of a medieval farm during the winter. The picture shows some people working and others siting by an open fire. Medieval peasant life was very hard and demanding. Economically, a harsh winter could negatively affect production in a village negatively. Farmers needed to make sure that their harvests lasted them through the winters. || The illustration above shows a tournament taking place to get soldiers ready for war. A tournament consists of not 2 knights such as a joust, but several knights. Soldiers were trained to fight which politically would raise their power in wars. Money was spent to buy horses, weapons, armor and things. Special armor was used in wars to protect knights in wars which was the few of the only things people and horses wore during the war. ||  ||