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Period: 400 to 1530
Middle Ages
The Middle Ages or medieval time is believed to have started with the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 and to have lasted about 1,000 years until about 1450. The beginning of the Middle Ages is called the Dark Ages because the great civilizations of Rome and Greece had been conquered. -
Period: 800 to
Holy Roman Empire
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1054
East-West Schism (aka the Great Schism)
The break of communion between what are now the Roman Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches, which has lasted since the 11th century. -
Period: 1300 to
The Renaissance
the revival of European art and literature under the influence of classical models in the 14th–16th centuries. -
Period: 1347 to
Black Death
a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s. Estimates vary, but the Black Death may have killed one-half of Europe's population, and about 100 million people worldwide. -
Period: 1517 to
The Reformation
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Period: 1550 to
Scientific Revolution
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Period: to
The Enlightenment