Later, the Turks attempted in the 17th century Vienna to conquer. Both violations have failed. Today, there are Muslim extremists who want to claim Spain and Europe for Islam. Basically, at this time, life expectancy was not even nearly as high as it is today. Many families had to earn their money and the threat of fire, death and theft was pervasive. Large parts of Europe in the early middle ages were lawless spaces. These parts also included the present-day Federal Republic of Germany.
So artisans, families and monarchs could ensure their relatives, countless death funds and fire funds were founded by guilds. Guilds were associations of several people who secured the risk of the individual in the event of damage by their membership dues. In fact, they were comparable with the death tills of ancient Roman and Greek. One of the few documents of Charlemagne Act prohibition addressed to the guilds, to establish any association. “Free to conquer the motto and parts” it was forbidden the guilds to join forces and thus a larger Union to establish. Both the State and the Church feared a third great power in the middle ages. For this reason, many guilds to fail were doomed. The principle of the Guild worked until, at once entered several claims and the claims of victims not to one hundred per cent could be secured.
No wonder, then, that the principle of insurance nor prevailed in the early middle ages as in Greek and Roman antiquity. Basically, this insurance principle was doomed to failure in modern times until far in the early. The fire guilds of the middle ages are often considered a precursor of today’s insurance industry research. While some years ago, many researchers measured with little importance the middle ages, there are now many scientists, which clearly highlight the importance of guilds for the today’s insurance industry and today’s life insurance. Summary can be said so, that in the middle ages the course for the future of Europe were laid. These points were placed not only in the field of world politics but also for the insurance industry. Due to the missing mathematical foundations insurance could not prevail but long.