The renaissance was a time of rebirth. It was not only a rebirth economically, socially, and scientifically, but also for the arts. Michelangelo was one of the great artists that captured the Renaissance through art. He captured the Renaissance in an art piece named "Ancestors of Christ: figures" ...

The Crusades One great theme of the middle ages would have to be the crusades and how they changed history in many different ways. The crusades changed a lot of things about society in that day including helping trade and also sparking interest in other cultures which paved the way for the renaiss...

Following trade routes by land and sea, carried by infected humans as well as by rats and their attendant fleas, in the fourteenth century, the Black Death spread all over Europe at incredible speed. Where ever it hit the plague had tremendous repercussions. Its effects varied from the short to th...