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It was due to two fundamental factors: the barbarian invasions that devastated Europe, that is, the Western Roman Empire, formed the Germanic Roman Empire.
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The first cresade, the Pope called on Western Christians to take up arms to aid the Byzantines and recapture the Holy Land from Muslim control. This marked the beginning of the Crusades. -
Was a military campaign organised by the Pope and European nobles to recapture the city of Edessa in Mesopotamia which had fallen -
King Richard I becomes powerful by taking land back from lords. -
Only 7 years after the failure of the fifth crusade, and it was a new attempt to recover Jerusalem. Finally the crusaders managed to reconquer this city and also Nazareth, Sidon, Jaffa and Bethlehem. -
The Eighth Crusade was the second Crusade launched by Louis IX of France, this one against the Hafsid dynasty in Tunisia in 1270. It is also known as the Crusade of Louis IX against Tunis or the Second Crusade of Louis. -
A ship came from the Crimea and Asia and docked in Messina, Sicily. Aboard the ship were not only sailors but rats. The rats brought with them the Black Death, the bubonic plague. -
King Ferdinand and Queen send Christopher Columbus to sail west in search of Asia -
historians have speculated that the fleas on rats are responsible for the estimated 25 million plague deaths -
Isolation of people who were sick in plague hospitals. Hospitals were built throughout Europe and remained as fever hospitals for infectious patients up until the 1900s. Restricting ships to port. In 1347 the Venetian authorities isolated ships in port for 30 days to ensure they were not infected.
