Have you ever wondered what life would be like if you were born into another time period? What about the Middle Ages? Would you have been lucky and lived as a knight, a lord or lady, or even a king or queen? Or would you have been like the majority of peasants and lived a tough life of hard labor? Did everyone live in castles? What did people do for work? And for fun? Did knights really fight dragons? You'll find out the answers to these questions and so much more in this incredible book on medieval Europe.

Here are just a few of the amazing things you'll discover in this book:

• How exactly did the Middle Ages begin, and why is it sometimes called the Dark Ages?
• The twelve-year-old girl who was visited by God and led an army at sixteen!
• The importance of the date 1066
• What were the Crusades, and why were they fought?
• What was feudalism, and who introduced it?
• The different types of castles and what they looked like
• How to become a knight
• How sports in the Middle Ages influenced our modern-day sports teams' uniforms!
• Life in the towns versus villages
• The different types of jobs people had
• The difference between peasants and serfs and what life was like for them
• What did people eat?
• What medieval houses were like
• The importance of religion in the Middle Ages
• The different types of medieval art, architecture, and literature
• What was the Black Death, and did it really kill almost a third of Europe?
• The incredible legacies left behind that influence our lives today