Middle English Eras

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The world was created, maintained, and profited from as humans grew to be more and more advanced. Through the ages, such as the Old English and Middle English eras, these advancements came fairly quickly, and the benefits of the world were being racked up quicker than humans though possible. Though both the Old English and Middle English eras had much in common, during their transitions and reign many different aspects from the of presentation of stories, fighters, heroes, religion, women, plagues, the Magna Carta-Legal, books, time, and to even climate change individualized both eras. Stories have been a long time celebration of knowledge, entertainment, and wisdom, passed down by voice or by text. The Old English era and Middle English era …show more content…

Books in the Old English era were accomplished by turning animal skin into parchment paper. To do this process was very time consuming and skill required, so naturally when the books were finally written or hand-copied, the books became an expensive luxury rather than a commodity of knowledge for all. In the Middle English era books were accomplished by taking old linen rags after the plague and turning them into paper. This process was a little cheaper than animal skin, so a more range of civilians were acquiring books, but still only those who had enough money to spend on such things. Since only the nobles were taught any reading in the Middle English era, as it was in the Old English era, it was mostly nobles purchasing and viewing. Books became a way to differentiate and compare the Middle English and the Old English …show more content…

In the Old English era, the temperatures were warm and from there people were able to settle into Greenland. Bumper crops usually grow in cold places but it was easier to access many other crops due to warm weather. As the weather grew warmer, so did families. The Old English took advantage of the surplus of food to raise bigger families and create the first baby boom of its time. By the Middle English era, however, the weather grew horribly cold, making it harder to plant crops. The small ice age in the Middle English era killed off by starvation and the plagues grew ravenous with each person they took. A recession of children began as less people had to time to take care of the younger generations, much less start a new generation. As the Old English era was an extreme warm climate, the Middle English era was extreme too, in the opposite direction of the spectrum towards the cold