Technological innovation and cosmopolitanism in the Middle Ages

Technological innovation increased as trade picked up/nThe Middle Ages had a cosmopolitan culture with the movement of people and ideas/nThe perception of the Middle Ages as an age of blind obedience to authority is a legacy of the French Enlightenment/nThe Catholic Church in the Far West was unusually violent and intolerant/nMedieval thought involved questioning the values of daily affairs and seeking true value through study and contemplation/nThe intellectual debates of the age often revolved around the question of knowledge and understanding