Why were the relics of saints important to the people in the middle ages?

Because the Scientific Revolution and the Reformation Era had not happened yet and people blindly followed the church's teachings.

The native americans, spanish, french and americans all name places in our state. the word “arkansas” came from the quapaw indians, by way of early french explorers. at the time of the early french exploration, a tribe of indians, the quapaws, lived west of the mississippi and north of the arkansas river.