Period of western civilization between the 5th centuries.

It usually places its

beginning in the year 476 with the fall of the western Roman Empire and its end in
the year 1492 with the discovery of America.
In the Middle age the slave production mode was replaced by a feudal servitude
production mode, there was also a decomposition of the centralized structures of
the Roman Empire that gave way to a dispersión of power in the ideological and
cultural there was a miscegenation of the classical culture with the Christian and
islamic monotheistic cultures, each in its space.

the transport of large goods was done by sea, or by waterways

Society medieval was for centuries a society basically rural in the middle age 90%
of the population he lived in the countryside center of all activity and daily life for
the inhabitansts of that time.