In general terms, how would you describe the Middle Ages?

The Middle Ages was when the Priests and the Catholic Church were the controllers of society because they were the ones who had education and they were the ones who had hand-written the bible. Also, the Middle Ages had feudalism who had serfs (serfs=illiterate).

Explanation:

the mother countries succeed in doing that by using the colony's natural resources, facilities in a colony, they do not take good care of these facilities, causing them to fail. this has had negative and positive effects on the people of africa, they then governed through direct or indirect rule depending on the country.

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