Can someone help me please 1.Based on all of the information why is referring to the Middle Ages as the dark ages seen as a Eurocentric point of view

2.Why would so many Europeans take up crusading

3.Why would building a cathedral show your devotion to the Catholic Church?

4.What was the Romanesque style of cathedral architecture?

5. Why were books considered works of art during the Middle Ages in Europe?

1.because the roman empire up until that point was the most successful European based nation. and since it collapsed everything got worse in Europe.

2.because pope innocent the 2nd or 1st cant remember promised that all of the Europeans sins would be forgiven if they took up the cross

3. because it showed you would invest heavily in your devotion to god and the pope.

4.gothic archways which were also used on castles

5.since literary rates dropped you were engaging in an act of chivalry by keeping records of kings and other people.

africa

explanation:

cultural/diplomatic relations. most medieval japanese   culture has chinese origins. writing, architecture etc.