The High Middle Ages, or High Medieval Period, was the period of European history conventionally dated from about 1000 to about 1300 CE, the middle phase of the broader Post-Classical and Medieval Period. It saw rapid population growth across Europe, the revival of towns and long-distance trade after the disruptions of the early medieval centuries, the rise of the Italian city-states as commercial powers, and an intellectual and architectural flowering, including the founding of Europe's first universities and the Gothic cathedrals, sometimes called the renaissance of the twelfth century.
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What changed in Europe during the High Middle Ages?
Rapid population growth drove social and political change; Italian city-states rose and the first universities and Gothic cathedrals appeared.
The period conventionally dated from about 1000 to about 1300 is described as one of rapidly increasing population in Europe, which brought great social and political change from the preceding era. Sources point to the ascent of the great Italian city-states, the building of many of the most notable Gothic cathedrals, and the founding of the first universities, in Bologna, Oxford, Paris, Salamanca, Cambridge and Modena.
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The Emden is the oldest goose breed of the area that is now Germany, with origins believed to go back to the thirteenth century.
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it appears that the Herdwick was an important breed in the Lake District by the end of the 12th century.
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who visited Ayyubid Egypt in 1216 and described the plant under cultivation by the locals
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Monastery records show that monks in the Twelfth Century raised sheep that are the progenitors of the modern Scottish Blackface breed.
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WikipediaHigh Middle Ages, introduction
the period of European history between c. 1000 and c. 1300.
In Era: The Post-Classical and Medieval Period, High Middle Ages, in relation to the medieval period
the period of European history between c. 1000 and c. 1300.
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