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Period: 400 to 1500
Modern languages start to spread
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476
Fall of the Western Roman Empire
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Period: 610 to 632
The Quran is written
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Period: 650 to 700
Arabic spreads all over the Islamic Empire
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711
Arabs invade Spain
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850
The Arabian Nights is written
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1136
King Arthur
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Period: 1200 to 1299
Universities open all around Europe
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Period: 1300 to 1399
Boccaccio's the Decameron
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Period: 1308 to 1320
Dante's Divine Comedy
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Period: 1387 to 1400
Chaucer's the Canterbury Tales
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Period: 1450 to 1500
European literature takes off when books start to be less expensive thanks to manufacturers and the printing press.