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| 21.15 | Work history.1100 - 1400 CE |
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| Three major events conspired to work against the hard fought efforts of the Vatican and the Popes to keep the world in perpetual darkness and misery: |
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| • The Middle Ages Warming Period • The re-emergence of skills • The re-discovery of lost ancient wisdom |
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| The Middle Ages Warming Period | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Because global warming is about a constant upwards increase in temperatures, the phenomena as the Middle Ages warming period in which average temperatures were just slightly below those of the 1990’s and considerably wetter is rarely if ever mentioned. Indeed, the 250 period is largely removed through crafty statistics when you casually look at the graphs used to justify global warming. |
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| In spite of its contemporary absence from consciousness, the Middle Ages warming period did occur and was responsible for freeing large populations of Europe and the world from the misery of 800 years of Catholic induced hell on Earth. |
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| Land became more fertile, more food was able to be grown and in traditionally colder climates. Populations began to rise and trade increase. |
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| At the same time, the Popes in their wisdom had launched the crusades against the Muslims to recapture not just the “Holy Land” but eliminate Islam entirely. |
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| Partly driven by greed and the rumors of fabulous wealth and partly out of fear of the knowledge that the Muslims saved from the waves of Christian destruction of ancient libraries and centers of learning, the Crusades were a costly, bloody and ultimately futile exercise. |
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| However, what these massive campaigns did is force Kings and Queens to commission arms manufacturing and industry to both create weapons, develop tactics and feed and support these massive movements of people. |
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| As a result, trade returned in a massive surge. At the centre of this massive surge in trade were the famous Knights Templar. These famous and mysterious knights had a huge part to play in the growth of trade with the introduction of paper money- that is a piece of paper which promised a trader that upon completion of their journey or at any of the castles controlled by the Templars, they could redeem the value of their goods in equivalent value of gold. |
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| The effect of this new class of work, as bankers can not be understated. From the time this practice started around 1110 until the dissolving of the Knights Templer around 1303 they had become the wealthiest organisation outside of the Vatican itself and helped re-grow a massive trade system across continents stretching from the Middle East and Asia to all parts of Europe. |
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| In the process, one of the most prized possessions traded with Arabs was copies (in Arabic) of ancient texts long destroyed by the Vatican such as the works of Euclid, of Aristotle and others. |
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| This knowledge spurred the re-birth of centres of learning, the University in Paris and England and the re-birth of science. |
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| However, it would be until another five hundred years until western scientists would start to come up with truly earth shattering philosophies that clearly surpassed the ancients. |
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| Sadly, for all the promise that the Middle Ages warming period held for the redemption of western society, both the weather and the greed of Popes and Kings conspired against it and by the late 1300’s the world was heading back into a quasi-dark period. |
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