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it was designed to distribute the weight of its load between the wheel and the operator so enabling the convenient carriage of heavier and bulkier loads than would be possible were the weight carried entirely by the operator.
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The Middle Ages or Medieval period lasted from the 5th to the 15th century. It began with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire
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He united most of Western Europe during the early Middle Ages and founded modern France and Germany
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He inherits the western part of the Frankish empire, a coastal strip from southwest France up through the Netherlands into northern Germany
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The population grew and eventually small towns expanded to become cities. Also new people arrived.
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It was the final separation between the Eastern Christian churches (led by the patriarch of Constantinople) and the Western Church (led by Pope Leo IX).
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a group of undisciplined hordes of French and German peasants
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He was the King of England from 1154–89. He curbed the power of the barons, but his attempt to bring the church courts under control was abandoned after the murder of Thomas à Becket.
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There were two big armies led by kings and a few smaller independent armies that were scattered throughout the Mediterranean. Upon reaching Anatolia, both kings were soundly defeated separately giving the Turks a victory they badly needed.
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The Moslem world found in the famous Saladin a leader for a holy war against the Christians.
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King John signed the Magna Carta. The Magna carta had 63 articoles and it was protectecting the peasents rights because king john was abusing his power.
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People who depended on the land for raising animals or food were forced to move and farmland abandoned. Land that could grow crops was hard to find.
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city of Orleans in France, was besieged by English forces and Joan of Arc a teenage French peasant, successfully led the French force to break the siege.
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it was invented by Johannes Gutenberg. It was a hand mould to create metal movable type, and adapted screw presses and other existing technologies.
