Rome is destroyed

The Catholic Church Takes Over

500

The Church owned many large areas of farmland. People who grew crops on this land had to give one tenth of everything they grew to the Church. This was called the Tithe. This was a lot of crops for many poor people to lose. It controlled people’s beliefs. The Church told people that when they died, their souls lived on either in Heaven or in Hell, they said, was a place of great pain and suffering. The people were understandably frightened of going there. So, the Church gave them hope.

Charlamagne

Sep 26, 700

Charlamagne was the greatest ruler during the middle ages.

The Crusades

Sep 26, 1095

Pope Urban II and the Catholic Church set a goal to reacces to the holy lands between the christians and muslims.

The Renaissanse

Sep 26, 1450

Rennasaince means rebirth of the rome and greek empire during the crusades they developed knowledge and trade.

Columbus discovers America

Sep 26, 1492

Christopher Columbus tried to find a water route to India with avoiding Italy and instead he discovered America

The Protestant Reformation

Sep 26, 1517

all the trade developing in the midle east Martin Luther read the Bible and discovered the Catholic Church was lying starting the Protestant reformation.

Rome is destroyed

Aug 6, 1806

Rome was the biggest empire... The fall of Roman Empire was an ongoing process that continued for over hundreds of years. The legend has it that Rome was not built in a day, and most historians believe that it was not destroyed in a day either. All the major events that contributed to the Fall of Rome have been categorized into different periods.