THE MIDDLE AGES IN CONTEXT

Seek information online to answer the following questions: 

a) What are the Middle Ages?

b) Why is this period also known as the Dark Ages?

c) What was life like during the Middle Ages?

d) What religious institution had a heavy influence during the High Middle Ages (1000-1300 AD) and was the center of life in Medieval western Europe? Why was it so powerful?

e) Were most Europeans literate at that time? Support your answer.

f) According to the Christian theology, how would these terms be defined?

❇ Heaven

❇ Purgatory

❇ Limbo

❇ Hell

❇ Sin

❇ Redemption

❇ Salvation

g) Provide 5 facts about medieval Italy.

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