1. What period does the Middle Ages cover? The Middle Ages lasts 10 centuries. From the fall of the Roman empire in 476 to the discovery of America in 1492. 2. What general characteristics does it have (according to the teachers comments)? They lived from agriculture and Livestock, the church was of great importance and were the unicates who knew how to read, and was divided into social classes: privileged, not privileged and exclavs, the Romanesque and the Gotic are very important with the art 3. What is the main difference between ``troubadours and minstrels´´? As nouns the difference between troubadour and minstrel is that troubadour is an itinerant composer and performer of songs in medieval europe; a jongleur or travelling minstrel while minstrel is (historical) a medieval traveling entertainer who would sing and recite poetry, often to his own musical accompaniment. 4. Pay attention to these t...