Please answer ALL of the following questions to the best of your knowledge and ability.
Please limit your answers to 500 words for each question.
1. In 800 A.D. the empire in the west was renewed in the person of Charlemagne. To what extent was it a centralized government? What were the unifying elements? To what extent did Charlemagne's empire retain the political structure of a Germanic kingdom?
2. France and England emerged by 1300 as the most powerful states in the West. On what did each state base its authority? Compare and contrast the governments of medieval France and England.
3. In many ways the later medieval period can be described as destructive. In what ways were the political, social, and economic structures of the High Middle Ages altered in the later medieval period?
4. In what ways did the Black Death revolutionize the social and economic structure of Europe? How were the peasant revolutions related to these changes?