Why Do People Fail In The Medieval Ages

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The Medieval Ages included event examples being the Magna Carta, the Black Death, the Wars of the Roses, and the Peasants’ Revolt. The Magna Carta is an essay that to the years of bad foreign policies and heavy tax demands, the King of England was facing a possible rebellion by the powerful countries barons. Under pressure King John who was the King of England at the time established a charter of liberties identified as the Magma Carta. The Black Death was a widespread of the Bubonic Plague. The Bubonic Plague was a disease caused by the “bacterium Yersinia Pestis”. That bacterium circulates midst wild rodents where they live in great masses and density. An area like that is called a “plague reservoir” or a “plague focus”. The Wars of the Roses was a sequence of wars to overrule the English Throne. The Peasants’ Revolt is a rebellion caused by the unpopular poll tax of 1381.
The military flail or just flail is a weapon most commonly credited to the Medieval Period. Spite of the absence of recent historical orientation to the use of flails. The Flail is often called the “the mace and chain or the ball and chain”. This was a massive figure in the “Victorian
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The one handed flail was not used for any other purpose than for combat. The types of one handed flails are the morning star and the mace. The two handed flail was a tool used in farming as a threshing device. Two Handed Flails were not only used for farming they were used in revolts and in combat to protect their village and farming land. The flail was most commonly used by knights and foot soldiers. To be effectual and to have power using a flail you had to keep it moving continuously at an extraordinarily high speed. If you did not you could easily lose control and the flail could hit you. At high speeds the flail was easy to control, at low speeds it was difficult and at low speeds the enemy also had more of a chance of a contradicting