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The fall of the Roman Empire initiated the beginning of the Middle Ages. at this time the invasion of Italy arose on September 4, 476.
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More than a thousand years ago the Angel Gabriel appeared before Muhammad. Since then, and for the rest of his life, the Prophet was entrusted with delivering the message of Islam to the rest of humanity.
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The Viking era officially begins with the attack on the monastery of Lindisfarne in 793.
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Founded in France, it later became a French commune of the same name and later the abbey was under the authority of the Pope Sergius.
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The battle of Hastings was the confrontation between the troops of the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, Harold the Saxon, and the army of the Duke of Normandy, William the Bastard. The meeting happened on October 14, 1066 on the hill of Senlac.
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The first crusade was preached in 1095 by the urban pope II, with the aim of helping orthodox Christians to the liberation of Jerusalem.
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The Magna Carta of 1215. The signing of the Magna Carta granted extensive rights, at first to the nobility and later to the citizens of England. On June 15, 1215, King Juan Sin Tierra, had to give in to the pressure of the barons.
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Genghis Khan founded the most extensive empire of those that have existed in history. Under his command the Mongol tribes united and spread through Asia, the Middle East until they reached Europe. Temuyín or Temüdyin (such as his name) died on August 18 of the year 1227, but his genes are still among us.
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The construction of this impressive cathedral began in 1163, but the works did not finish until 1345. In the place chosen to erect Notre Dame for centuries there was a Celtic settlement, then a Roman one and, of course, a medieval one.
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The black plague was a pandemic of plague that ravaged Europe during the fourteenth century and was transmitted by fleas transported by rats. The epidemic emerged in Central Asia, from where it passed to Italian cities with great maritime activity such as Genoa, and from there to all of Europe. The Black Death ended with more than a third of the European population and some 45 million people worldwide.
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Los Incas fueron los dirigentes del imperio americano más grande. Cerca del fin del siglo XIV, el imperio comenzó a extenderse de su región inicial en la región de Cuzco hasta la región sur de las montañas Andinas de América del Sur. Esta terminó brutalmente con la invasión española dirigida por Francisco Pizarro, en 1532.
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Johann Gutenberg invented the modern printing press in the mid-fourteenth century. Although already the Romans 400 years a.C. they used clay molds and the Chinese in the 11th century used porcelain pieces to make reproductions. In Europe, during the low middle ages woodcut was used to print posters and pamphlets.
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After almost ten years of war, in 1491 the Catholic Kings laid siege to the capital of the Nasrid kingdom of Granada. His fall was a matter of time, and Boabdil, the Sultan of Granada, had only one option: to surrender.
