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The Perfect Storm of the 1300s: War, Corruption, and the Plague

The 1300s were marked by profound turmoil as the Hundred Years' War ravaged Europe, burdening the common people with heavy taxes while kings profited. Amid political corruption, the Avignon Papacy shifted power in the Catholic Church, leading to a schism with rival popes. The Bubonic Plague decimated Europe, killing a third of the population in just three years, attributed by the Church to divine punishment. However, the Crusades sparked an influx of knowledge from classical Greece and Rome, reshaping Western civilization.

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The Perfect Storm of the 1300s: War, Corruption, and the Plague

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  1. The Perfect Storm:The 1300s

  2. The One Hundred Years War • Political Corruption • The People are tired of constant Rape, Pillage, and Murder. It is not the Kings and Nobility that suffer • Also the Kings are raising taxes to pay for this war with little gain for the common people

  3. Avignon Papacy • Religious Corruption • The Papacy of the Roman Catholic Church is moved to Avignon France by King Phillip IV • A new Papacy will form in Rome again to counter act the one in Avignon • Eventually, Europe will have three Popes at once and all will be Excommunicated

  4. The Bubonic Plague • Corruption of Medieval Society • 1/3 of the population of Europe dies in 3 years and there is no explanation as to why • The Church’s explanation is that God is punishing sinful man

  5. Influx of Knowledge from the Crusades • The Knowledge of Greece and Rome was also kept by the Muslims and Byzantines. • During the Crusades the knights of Europe begin to experience these cultures • They Crusaders bring the ideas of Greece and Rome back to Western Civilization

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