Middle Ages

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  • Period: 301 to 400

    Monasteries

    Monasteries arose from the need of the cenobites or monks to find a place to share and lead a life of isolation and prayer, both in Christianity and in other religions. The architectural solution was these buildings where they could organize themselves and lead the life they had chosen.
  • 476

    Western Roman Empire

    Western Roman Empire
    The Middle Ages began with the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire.
  • Period: 722 to 1492

    Muslim Invasion of the Iberian Peninsula

    In the Iberian Peninsula between the years 722 and 1492, the Muslim Invasion of the Iberian Peninsula took place in the 8th century, the result was the end of the Muslim political presence in the Peninsula
  • Period: 1001 to 1300

    FEUDALISM

    Feudalism was a social system that emerged in the Frankish kingdom in the Early Middle Ages and spread throughout Western Europe during the Middle Ages (between the 11th and 13th centuries). From an economic point of view, it was a land tenure regime that favored the rural nobility and encouraged serfdom.
  • 1054

    Schism of East

    Schism of East
    The word 'schism' means 'separation'. The Schism of East and West, also known as the Great Schism, is, therefore, the separation of the pope and Christianity of the West, of the Christianity of the East and its patriarchs, especially the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
  • Period: 1073 to 1085

    Gregorian Reform

    These measures aimed at the renewal of the Church and the affirmation of the authority of the Roman pontiff. Gregory VII, by calling councils and sending legates, attempted to eradicate simony (purchase and sale of spiritual goods and offices) and Nicolaism (marriage or concubinage of clerics).
  • 1453

    Byzantine Empire

    Byzantine Empire
    Ended with the fall of the Byzantine Empire at the hands of the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century.
  • 1453

    printing

    printing
    This is the most widespread temporal division, but it is also dated as the final year of the Middle Ages, in the same year the Byzantine Empire fell, Gutenberg invented the printing press, and the Hundred Years' War ended.
  • 1453

    Constantinople

    Constantinople
    The capture of Constantinople by the Ottomans puts an end to the Byzantine Empire. After centuries of decline, the fall of Constantinople marked the end of the Byzantine Empire. The city, renamed Istanbul, became the new capital of the powerful Ottoman dominion.
  • 1505

    single-hand clocks

    single-hand clocks
    In the 15th century, single-hand clocks were invented to mark the hours. the German blacksmith Peter Henlein managed to build mechanical clocks so small that they could be carried in a pocket.