Middle Age Europe evolved numerous times passing through multiple changes over the thousand year period beginning at approximately 500 C.E. Among the significant events experienced by Middle Age Europe are: spread of Christianity through the Roman Empire, wars within the Sasanid Empire, the rise of Islam, the fractioning of different Islamic sects after the death of Prophet Muhammad and the wars between Muslims against each other, and the establishment of guilds to fulfill an economical agenda.
As the official religion of many rulers, the spread of Christianity actually contributed to the spread of Islam after some Christians heard the news of the final prophet upon whose appearance they were awaiting. Rosenwein mentions that "Constantine's rule marks the beginning of what historians call 'Late Antiquity,' a period transformed by the culture and religion of the provinces." (SMHA 25). He was responsible for adopting Christianity as an official religion for his empire; however, Constantine’s rule was limited as the distribution of armed forces across the vast land ruled by the Romans would become one of the main reasons leading to the transformation of the Roman world. This led to their vulnerability and the eventual invasion of Barbarians and Persians into the Roman lands. After this "…crisis of the third century…" it was much more difficult to find recruits to deal with the situation, which was a result of a dwindling birthrate and a smallpox and measles epidemic that swept the country. (SMHA 24).
As somewhat of a prelude to the rise of Islam as an influential factor in the evolving of the Middle Age European nation, “…both the Sasanid and Byzantine troops and revenues were exhausted.” (SMHA 63). The weakening of these two empi...
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...w much your competition charges helps you keep up with the market. These guild meetings were responsible for the average local pricing for services and worked kind of like a modern-day union in terms of regulating the industry and those who participate in it.
From a functional sociological perspective, many events that took place in Middle Age Europe set off a domino effect, which led to the rise and fall of many empires. This is just an account of a very small fraction of them. All of the events in this chain are indubitably related to each other in some way: the rendering of Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire and the role of the pope, the weakening of the empire through war with the Persians, the rapid spread of Islam through treatises and Jihad and the disagreements between Muslims after the prophet’s death, and the establishment of guilds.