a great renewal of church buildings; each Christian community was driven by a spirit of rivalry to have a more glorious church than the others. It

was as if the world had shaken itself, and casting off its old garments, had dressed itself again in every part in a white robe of churches.

The Gothic Age (c. AD 1130-1530) marked

the end to an age of chaos, primarily caused by the sacking and pillaging of the Vikings. After the great minds of Western Europe were freed from

using their vast knowledge to defend against invaders or plagues, they now had the time and the resources needed to design any and everything in this

era from bridges to city walls and castles to cathedrals. This was also a very religious age, with plenty of money being pumped into the Church,

some from the crusades, with all of its included looting, and a lot more from all of the tithes all of the people who were born in the population

explosion gave faithfully. Another even bigger source of income for the Church came to it in the shape of power and prestige, when the

more than a third of the population.1 2 This was more than twice the population of Europeans in the year 950 when it was 22,600,0003 .

grandeur, or Las Vegas, a place known for its flashy style and glitz. Just think what a person who has never seen either one of these places, or

the walls in the style that preceded Gothic, Romanesque. The walls in Gothic were thin and had a lot of stained glass in them, not to mention

years, there was more stone quarried to be used in cathedrals (several million tons) than was quarried during the age of the pyramids in Egypt,

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