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Period: 500 to 900
Recovery period after Rome’s fall; Christian missionaries work in Northern Europe
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732
Franks defeat Muslims in France
Halted Muslim spread and without this victory our world could be very different place -
Period: 800 to 814
Charlemagne’s empire
United majority of Western and Central Europe -
962
Germanic Kings revive Roman Empire
Was a group of territories in Europe that joined to for the “Holy Roman Empire” -
Period: 1096 to 1270
Crusades
Millitary campaigns to spread Christianity -
1215
Manga Carta
Put limits on the rights and powers of the king -
Period: 1226 to 1270
Louis IX of France
King of France during rebelions -
1265
First English Parliament
Established rights of barons and dispersed power in England -
Period: 1338 to 1453
Hundred years’ war
Caused by conflict between House of Plantagenet and House of Lancaster -
Period: 1348 to 1380
Black Death (bubonic plague)
Killed about 25 million people or about 1/3 of the population
