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-Middle Ages 900-1400
-Crusades
-Changed society by help bringing spices, silks, and other luxuries back to Europe
-The major routes they traveled made way for the development of towns to the Holy Land
-When trade and commerce grew between the Christendom and Arab world, new classes of people had come
–merchants, businesspeople, bankers, artisans, and craftspeople
-Their skilled labor and learning in many occupations helped to build the strength of medieval society
-they were valuable because of their knowledge in trade, medicine and navigation
-Great works of literature, drama, and music grew from entertainers that traveled the roads putting on plays, singing songs, and telling stories of romantic love
-Towns replaced the monasteries as the centers of life and culture
-Cathedrals were built to raise people’s hearts to God
-The best cathedral schools became universities, first one in Bologna
-Gratian, an Italian monk, formed a canon and civil law using Abelard’s new method, which was a new way of asking new questions and doing research to find new answers
-Scholasticism – an important way of doing philosophy and theology
-Abelard’s method enabled scholars to suggest answers to difficult questions
-Summa Theologiae by St. Thomas Aquinas is an excellent example of scholastic theology