Middle+Ages+Artifacts

In this picture is of a musical sheet in which there are musical notes written on it. There is a small image of a musician in the top left corner. In the Middle Ages music was a very important part of their Middle Age society and the Middle Age life.

This picture depicts people being punished because they were accused of causing the Black Death. There are people supervising the beatings and killings. The Black Death had effects on people socially, politically, and economically. Socially it made people turn on each other and blamed each other for cause the Black Plague and spreading it. Politically it made the governments punish people suspected of causing or spreading the plague. Also economically it affected people because the population lowered and there were fewer people to farm and the costs of products went up.

Mosaics in the Middle Ages were often created for religious reasons. The mosaics often told stories or depicted things that were happening at the time. This mosaic image shows the food that they ate in the Middle Ages. The food consisted of grain, lobster, squid, chicken, fish, wheat, asparagus. This food was mostly for the rich or some of the middle class.



In this photo there is a helmet they would have worn in the Middle Ages. Armour effected the people socially and politically. It efffected them socially because the people were being protected from certain types of weapons and arrows and people would servive battles. It effected them politically because the soldiers were better protected and the king's or queen's men could servive battle.

This is a picture of a catapult. These were used in the Middle Ages as weapons to hurl projectiles. The catapult was powered by an enormous bow which was pulled back then released. The catapult was useful during siege warfare when the goal was to breach city or fortress walls.

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