For European culture, there was not much formal education at that time, most schooling in any sense was mostly taught to those who were born noble. Noble birth was really the only way that the people of medieval times found education. Not until Charlemagne’s empire the public was limited to becoming educated. With boarders leading from the tip of Spain, through France, and down through modern day Austria. Charlemagne had an incredible distance to establish his institutions. Under his empire he devised bishops to teach from the churches to educate the populations, “Charlemagne’s inspiration... Which saved literacy for the West by making diocesan bishops responsible for the provision of elementary education in their churches had long been practiced in the synagogues,” (Moore 140). Charlemagne’s desire to educate the population is definitely considerable evidence behind medieval influence on the modern world, because of public-schools existing around the present-day world. Charlemagne’s idea of educating the public is extraordinarily similar to why modern society sends their youth to schools. These vigorous trips to the chapel seem oddly familiarly to getting on a school bus in the morning. Still the major of the students of the church came from a noble birth signifies wealth and educated ancestry. Because of these noble birth adolescences learning through the churches …show more content…
This important good would be spices. Spices at the time were used not only for decorating their plain food with flavor, but it also demonstrated a significance of wealth within medieval societies. Back in medieval times, having a substantial, and various amount of spices indicated wealth. Even though herbs of the local area had the same effects, the spices are what indicates wealth, and wealth indicates superior social status. Due to the demand of spices traders would have to search in certain markets around the world to acquire such a unique good. Having all these foreign spices come into Europe, the people of the time believed that these majestic spices are so divine that they could only come from a heavenly place. Stories of distant lands that spawn these spices could only be because it is close to heaven. These stories influenced traders to find alternate routes to later discover and learn about distant cultures such as