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Julius Caesar was assassinated and stabbed 23 times by a mob of conspirators in a place just next to the Theatre of Pompey.
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The Roman Empire began when Augustus Caesar became the first emperor.
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Rome had most of the Mediterranean sea and a bit of North Africa and Middle East
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Diocletian was an emperor who ended the crisis of the third century and brought Rome to glory.
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The Roman Empire was too big that it was hard to govern. The Emperor Diocletian divided the empire into halves.
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Constantine the Great was a powerful emperor. As emperor, he named the city Constantinople, which means "City of Constantine" in Greek.
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Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity. 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.
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The city was attacked by the Visigoths led by King Alaric
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Only the western part of the Roman Empire fell. There are many reasons but one of the reasons is because the barbarians took advantage of difficulties in Rome.
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Justinian was an emperor and he reconquered the western part of Rome.
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When Muslims were rapidly growing, it conquered Maghreb (North Africa)
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This was a battle between Frankish Kingdoms and Muslim invaders from Spain. It was won by Charles Martel, the de facto ruler of Frankish Kingdoms.
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Charlemagne was a medieval emperor who ruled Western Europe. He encouraged the Carolingian Renaissance, a cultural and intellectual revival in Europe.
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Viking expansion is the process by which Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, sailed most of the North Atlantic, reaching south to North Africa and east to Russia, Constantinople and the Middle East as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
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St. Cyril(originally named Constantine) and Methodius were sent on a mission by Prince Rostislav of Great Moravia.
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East-West Schism is the break of communion between what are now the Catholic Church and Eastern Orthodox churches
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Crusades were a series of religious wars between Christians and Muslims started primarily to secure control of holy sites considered sacred by both groups.
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Magna Carta is a book written by John, King of England and Stephen Langton. It is a charter of rights agreed to by King John of England.
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The Mongol invasion of Europe in the 13th century was the conquest of Europe by the Mongol Empire.
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Divine Comedy was a poem written by Dante. It is divided into three parts, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso.
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100 year was a series of conflict between House of Plantagenet, rulers of the Kingdom of England, against the French House of Valois, over the right to rule the Kingdom of France.
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The plague was one of the most devastating pandemics in human history, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 75 to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe
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Pope Gregory XI ended the Avignon Papacy which was a period from 1309 to 1376 during which seven successive popes resided in Avignon rather than in Rome.
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Jan Hus was a theologian and a philosopher who influenced Martin Luther, Jerome of Prague and John Wesley.
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Brunelleschi finished building the biggest dome in the world (at that time) in Florence.
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Gutenberg's movable type printing press initiated nothing less than a revolution in print technology. His press allowed manuscripts to be mass-produced at relatively affordable costs.
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The fall of Constantinople marked the end of a glorious era for the Byzantine Empire.
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Lorenzo de Medici was an Italian statesman, ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of Renaissance culture in Italy.
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Baccio Pontelli paints the ceiling of Apolostic Palace, the official residence of the pope.
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The Birth of Venus depicts the goddess Venus arriving at the shore after her birth when she had emerged from the sea fully-grown.
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Mona Lisa has been described as "the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world".
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Henry was the second Tudor monarch, succeeding his father, Henry VII. Henry is best known for his six marriages.
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The Praise of Folly is an essay written in Latin about humanism and philosophy.
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The 95 Theses is about everything that was wrong about the Catholic churches and Martin Luther caused the reformation to happen.
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Counter-Reformation was a Catholic resurgence in response to the Reformation.
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Queen Elizabeth was the last of the five monarchs of the House of Tudor.
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He will write many of his great plays over the next few years including Hamlet and Macbeth.
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The Thirty Years' War was a war fought primarily in Central Europe. One of the most destructive conflicts in human history, it resulted in eight million fatalities not only from military engagements but also from violence, famine, and plague.
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The Peace of Westphalia was a series of peace treaties signed between May and October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster, largely ending the European wars of religion.
