The period in time from A.D. 500 to 1400 known as the middle ages can be referred to as the Age of Feudalism for many reasons. During this time period an upper class of nobles and a lower class of serfs and peasants emerged. The upper class lords began to distribute their land among other lower lords called vassals. In return for the land the lords expected loyalty and military service from the vassals while they gave the vassals protection from invaders. The vassals needed people to work their land and keep it producing food so they called on the lower class men call serfs. In return the vassals promised knights for protection to the peasant farmers. An excerpt from the Homage Oath take

The middle ages can also be described as the Golden Age. This time period was looked at as a time of prosper for a number of different reasons. The need for educated people grew more and more as the years past. The clergy wanted a better education and the government needed literate men for bureaucracies. This led to the development of universities from cathedrals. These schools specialized in the works of Aristotle, theology and philosophy. Medieval students also studied math and medicine and stressed the topic of geometry. As the increase in the study of math occurred the numbers developed from the long drawn out roman numerals to the simpler, easier to use Arabic numerals that we use today. As stated in an excerpt from Gray C. Boyce, The Medieval Period “…an age traditionally described as “dark” had remarkable vitality and exuberance…it was creative and inventive, and transmitted to later ages great riches of its own.” This maintains that the Middle Ages were very thought provoking and lively. The building of the grand gothic cathedrals with the marvelous ceilings, stained glass windows and flying buttresses began in the middles ages. These architectural achievements reflected in Medieval Europe by H.C. Davis, Oxford University Press. “…measure [the middle ages] by the memories and the achievements that it has bequeathed to the modern world…we must judge them by their ph

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