Middle+Ages+Artifacts

Most of the agricultural work in the middle ages was done by serfs and peasants. It had a social impact, because the peasants and serfs were doing stuff that affected them. ||
 * ==Mideival food== ||
 * This is an image of people stacking sheaves of grain on a medieval farm.
 * This is an image of people stacking sheaves of grain on a medieval farm.


 * =Medieval Military= ||
 * [[image:The_Crusades.jpg]] ||
 * This is an image of Pope Urban proposing the first crusade. He preached at the Council of Clermont in 1095. He proposed the movement on a 15th century miniature. The movement was taken up to for the cross to aid the byzantine empire against the Turks. This has a political and a social impact, because pope urban is preaching to people and a political impact, because they were going to help the byzantine against the Turks. ||


 * =Medieval Architecture= || =Medieval Art= ||
 * [[image:Hagia_Sofia.jpg]] || [[image:Saint_Benedict.jpg]] ||
 * This is an image of the Hagia Sofia. It was a church built in 537 B.C.E by Justinian l and it still stands today. It was the most important church for the Eastern Orthodox Christians for centuries during the middle ages. It was located in Constantinople which is now Istanbul, turkey. the Hagia Sofia as a symbol was showed the greatness of the Byzantine Empire. It later was used as an Islamic morgue, but is now just a museum. it had a political and social impact, because Justinian built it to make himself look better and it was a church. || This image is of Saint Benedict. He was the founder of monasticism in western Europe. He was a saint in Nersia and wrote the benedictine rule. The benedictine rule was the most influential rule in the early middle ages. He was part of a social class called the Benedictines that lived in a monastery and were monks. ||