![]() ![]() The war began over a squabble regarding succession to the throne of France. In the midst of all this socio-economic upheaval the English and French monarchies engaged in The Hundred Years War from 1337-1453 which greatly weakened both ruling houses. A good example of this was the sharp population decline in Provence, France where a population of 400,000 people dropped to 200,000 people. The reality was that Europe had reached its population ceiling and the land could no longer support the population. Added to this was a series of years of bad weather from 1315-1320 which caused much of these crops on marginal lands to fail which first led the peasant population to eat all their grain reserves and then their seed reserves, finally leading to starvation and no seed to plant for next years harvest. The 14th century however brought with it a sharp decline in population growth, due largely to the overpopulation of the previous centuries that had placed a strain on the land which forced many peasants to farm on marginal lands or lands with poor soil. ![]() The high middle ages were a period of marked social, political and economic growth all held together by the stability and continuity of the Roman church as an intertwining agent in all aspects of European life. ![]() The late middle ages opened as an era of unparalleled crisis in Europe as disaster after disaster struck every aspect of European life causing much of the prosperity of the high middle ages to crumble. ![]()
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