From beginnings roughly about the year 1000, greater stability came to the lands of Western Europe. With the brief exception of the Mongol incursions, major barbarian invasions had ceased. The advance of Christian kingdoms and military orders into previously pagan regions in the Baltic and Finnic northeast brought the forced assimilation of numerous native peoples to the European entity.
The "High Middle Ages" describes the expansionist culture and intellectual revival from the late 11th century to the beginning of the 14th. The High Middle Ages saw an explosion in population.…
