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The Middle Ages began in 476 with the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire. -
A Germanic chief, deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last emperor of Rome. -
The musical notation began as well as the birth of polyphony when multiples sounds came together and formed separate melody and harmony lines.
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During the Middle Ages there were religious festivals - the majority - but also many related to agricultural cycles -
Charlemagne, king of the Franks, was actually crowned emperor of the Romans by the pope. In later centuries the Hohenstaufen and Habsburg dynasties tried to restore the empire
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The Goliards were a group of clergy who wrote satirical Latin poetry to mock the church. Some known Goliards were Peter of Blois and Walter of Chatillon. -
The Hundred Years' War was an armed conflict between the kingdoms of France and England that lasted 116 years
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The Black Death or Black Death was the most devastating bubonic plague pandemic in human history, affecting Eurasia. -
The renaissance started with the fall of the Byzantine empire. -
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks -
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The School of Athens represents the value of scientific thought and natural truth, whose development is attributed to classical antiquity. -
The renaissance ended with the French Revolution.