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The emergence of Islam and its rise to the status of a worldempire in the 8th century came as a result of thecollapse of the Roman Empire in Western Europe and the Middle Eastand its subsequent fall into the middle ages. Pejoratively referredto as the “dark ages”, it was a period that roughly span 10centuries (Between the 5th and15th centuries) and during which European societywas plagued by population decline, high rates of illiteracy,slavery within a feudal system, and religious persecution. Indeed,it was in a stark contrast to the high Islamic civilization of thetime. And so when the two histories merged during the crusades,Europeans were exposed for the first time to the higher quality oflife in the Middle East. We know that they finally realized thebenefits of using soap, that their culinary tastes were enriched byspices, and that they were enthralled by the beautiful MiddleEastern textiles. By the end of the crusades, there was a growingneed for these coveted products and so Europeans began thinking ofways to get to the source of these products and bypassing theMuslim-controlled trade routes in Asia Minor, Mesopotamia, andPersia. It is from this economical perspective that Europe beganwaking up from the long slumber of the middle ages. What follows iseven more important as this latter development converges with otherreligious, political, and scientific breakthroughs that willeventually propel Western European civilization as a dominant forceto reckon with.
Your task in this writing assignment is to reconstruct the storyof the European Rebirth that began after the last crusade whilepaying special attention to this gradual shift of power from theEast to the West.
Based on your reading of chapter eleven “Meanwhile in Europe’,explore some or all of the following questions. Inyour final writingsubmission, you should include at least four out of theseven answers to the questions below. Failure to do so would affectyour grade points as explained in details in the rubric.