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The fall of the Western Roman Empire was at the beginning of the Middle Ages. The fall of Rome happened when the leader of the Goths, Odoacer overthrew Romulus, the Emperor or Rome at that time and became the first babarian to rule Rome.
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The Battle of the Tours was fought in 732 between the forces under Charles Martel and a large invading Islamic army led by Emir Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi Abd al Rahman. The battle took place near the city of Tours, France.
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Charlemagne was a Frankish king and united most of Europe. In 800AD, the pope declared him as the Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. He stayed with the Empire till death
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The Treaty of Verdun signed in 843, was the first of the treaties that divided the Carolingian Empire into three kingdoms among the three surviving sons of Louis the Pious, who was the son of Charlemagne. The treaty ended the three-year Carolingian Civil War.
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The battle of Langshan Jiang was a battle between the states of Wu and Wuyue in China. The battle took place on the Yangtze River in Jiangsu, China, which is the third longest river in the world. It was a big battle with both forces having roughly 500 ships. The Wuyue used gunpowder to create a flamethrower that then destroyed 400 ships. They then captured over 700 prisoners and over 1000 men died.
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Leif Eriksen was a Norse explorer from Iceland. He is renowned for being the first European to have set foot on north america.
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The Great Schism happened in 1054 when the Christian Church split up into two sections, The Western and the Eastern sections. The two sections then turned into the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church.
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The Battle of Hastings took place in 1066 on a hilltop 7 miles away from Hastings between the troops of Duke William of Normandy and the forces of Harold. William of Normandy won the battle and thousands of men died.
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An-Nasir Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub or 'Saladin' born in 1138 - 1193 was the first sultan of Syria and Egypt. Saladin was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Saladin completed the conquest of Muslim Syria, capturing Aleppo but failed to take over the Zengid dynasty of Mosul.
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The Magna Carta, signed by the King of England in 1215 was the turning point for peoples rights. It set the groundwork for English common law and later on, the Bill of Rights and the US Constitution.
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Marco Polo, born 1252 - 1324, was an Italian explorer, merchant and writer. He kept his travels in a journal and a book called 'the travels of Marco Polo' described his experiences in China and how vast and how wealthy the land was.
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Sir William Wallace, born in 1270 - 1305, was one of Scotland's greatest heroes. He was the leader of the Scottish resistance forces during the successful struggle to liberate Scotland from English rule.
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The Great Famine was when terrible weather hit most of Europe. It rained through most most of the years from 1315 to 1317. The weather caused crops to fail and rot which meant there was a low supply of vegetables. The weather also affected livestock as alot of the animals started to starve. Because of the low supply in food, prices started to become really high.
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The Hundred Years' War started in 1337 and ended in 1453. The Hundred Years War was a series of conflicts by the House of Plantagenet, rulers of England against the French House of Valois. Both forces fought over the right to rule the Kingdom of France. Thousands of men died throughout the many battles.
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The Black Death, also known as The Black Plague was when a devastating plague hit Europe and parts of Asia in 1348-1350 AD. It resulted in an estimated 75-200 million deaths.
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The Wars of the Roses were a series of English civil wars for control of the throne of England fought between The House of York associated with a white rose, and the House of Lancaster, whose symbol was a red rose. The wars started in 1455 - 1485.
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Martin Luther, born 1483 - 1546, was a German composer, monk, priest, professor of theology and a seminal figure in the protestant reformation.
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In 1492, Christopher Columbus lead 3 ships, the Pinta, the Nina and the Santa Maria out of the Spanish port of Polos. He sailed west towards Asia to find gold and spices but stumbled upon the Americas.
