While medieval country marriages were often the result of love, marriage among the noble class was more a business transaction than the culmination of ardent feelings

Courtly love became the subject of some of the most famous medieval poems, and where we get today's word, "Courtesy."

Passion was considered sinful to 11th and 12th century moralists, but these ideals were slowly being worn away with the rituals of courtly love.

The ancient Greeks spoke the same language. They believed in the same gods. They shared a common heritage. They perceived themselves as Greeks.

The ancient Greeks invented three types of columns that were used all over ancient Greece. The columns were placed to support a building, but also adjusted in size and angle and in footage from each other, so that from a distance, the columns looked perfectly symmetrical.