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To identify individuals by their name or their status.

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Q: What did heraldic symbols eventually come to signify mean in the Middle Ages?
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Why were heraldic shields designed that way?

It is a visual record of who is what. In the Middle Ages, most of the population could not read. The heraldic shield is a paragraph in pictures. The symbols tell specific things about the family that uses it, including the family motto (which people couldn't read in the first place.) If you were wealthy enough to need a crest, you made some pretty strong statements so that you would be noticed. The shield was/is a defensive weapon and the crests were added to identify the commoners who fought under the family name. If you were important enough to have a shield, you were a valuable fighter. So identifying a fighter was also a way for the opposite side to concentrate on those experienced fighters who could do more damage.


What three cultures influenced and transformed the Roman and Greek cultures and eventually produced the culture of the Middle Ages?

Though they weren't called that at the time, and certainly were not organized as such, you might argue that these countries impacted both Greece and later Rome, and the later Middle Ages. Egypt Britain Middle East


What was a explorers in a Middle Ages?

There was no explorers in the middle ages. When exploration started that is when the middle ages ended.


What period of time preceded the Middle Ages and what time period came after the Middle Ages?

Before the middle ages was Anquity (Greeks and Romans) and after the middle ages was the Renissance


What is the phone number of the Middle Village in Middle Village?

The phone number of the Middle Village is: 718-326-1390.