Middle Ages History: The trail of our Fears'

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Middle Ages History The trail of our Fears.
Year 1000 Year 2000 Have we really changed?
Death
Plague
God
Kings
Crusades
Witches
War
Hunger
Knights
millennium
Castles
Misery
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1000 -2000 The Fear of Poverty and Misery
1000 Solidarity Community Fraternity
Charity Survival 2000 Solitude
Loneliness Crime Homeless
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The Fear of the Stranger

1000 Barbarians Pagans Black - Jewish
Muslims Moors Asian - 2000
Who is the other?
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The Fear of Violence and War

• 1000
• Knights without a Lord
• Mercenaries
• Local and national wars
• Taxes
• Kidnapping
• Church controlled armed
• men and violence Crusades

• 2000
• Mercenaries
• Ethnic and Global wars
• Oil / Weapons
• Terror
• Countries control armies and violence
• WMD
• Biological weapons

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The Fear of the Millennium The End of The World
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1000 The Fear of the Plague or the Black Death
2000 Fear of AIDS, mental illness, cancer
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1000 The Fear of Demons, Witches, Monsters, and
Magic
2000 The Fear of the Unknown