Assignment
Why is this period often described as one of crisis? You may want to treat several of the following points:
--Enviromental factors that contributed to the growing economic depression of the 14th century.
--The origins of the Black Death and responses to this pandemic.
--Revolts in Europe (Jacquerie, English Peasants, Ciompi Rebellion)
--Lollards and Hussites.
--Hundred Years War between England and France.
--How medieval Russia was different from that of Europe.