The Infantry Revolution Of Western Europe In The Fourteenth Century

The content of this article is something about the Infantry Revolution of western Europe in the14th century and it analyzes several terms of the Infantry Revolution including its background and reasons, its content and history influence.Because the Chivalry plays an very important role in the medieval western European society, the middle Ages is called "Chivalry Ages". In the Chivalry Ages, due to the privileges in politic and economy, the class of knight almost completely monopolized the military affairs of each Western European country, which made the heavy cavalries occupied the absolute advantage position but the infantries just were regarded as the unimportant auxiliary forces.However, with the development of western European economic society, the Infantry Revolution which started in Switzerland and England and then spread across the whole Western Eruope destoried the advantages of the western European knights in the military affairs and made it a normal situation that the infantries defeated the cavalries instead of just a individual case.The Chivalry is a kind of military institution. All the privileges and social position that the knights owned in the medieval Europe were based on its military advantages in the battle field. The Infantry Revolution led the knights to failure of military, which made them lose their advantages in all aspects of the society. The Infantry Revolution drove the western European wars to develop its civilian and its democratization so that the battle was not the privilege of the aristocracy and a large number of common people join the army. They became the important power to determine the winner and the loser. That made the changes of the common people’s social position and their political influences. Besides, the Infantry Revolution greatly changed European political map and it had a profound influence on the western European modernization and the European rise as a military power in the whole world.