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Period: 476 to Jan 1, 1300
Middle Ages
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Jan 1, 622
Islam is founded
Islam is founded by Muhammed. Islamic world territories have included population of people of other religions gave rise to sciences,mathematics,and doctors. -
Oct 10, 732
Battle of Tours
A Moslem army, in a crusading search for land and the end of Christianity, after the conquest of Syria, Egypt, and North Africa, began to invade Western Europe under the leadership of Abd-er Rahman, governor of Spain. Abd-er Rahman led an infantry of 60,000 to 400,000 soldiers across the Western Pyrenees and toward the Loire River, but they were met just outside the city of Tours by Charles Martel, known as the Hammer, and the Frankish Army. -
Oct 14, 1066
Battle of Hastings
This battle established the superiority of the combined arms defeated King Harold's forces and overtook England. -
Jan 1, 1096
First Crusade
This opened an area where Rome came into contact with great trade toutes, they were no longer isolated. -
Jan 1, 1215
Magna Carta
First document that forced limits on kings' powers, about English charter. -
Jan 1, 1217
Marco Polo
Marco Polo was a famous historical eplorer during the middle ages. In 1271, when Marco was 17 years old he accompanied his dad and his uncle on a journey through the Holy Land, Persia and Tartary, and at length to the Empire of China, then called Cathay. -
Jan 1, 1247
The Black Death
And epidemic outbreak of plague caused by bacterium that came from fleas that fed off of a rat's blood. It killed 1/2-1/3 of europes population within a decade. Is the worst natural disaster in european history. -
Justinian's Code
Justinian I, also called Justinian the Great, ordered Roman judges and legal scholars to collect and compile the laws of the Roman Empire. Called the Justinian Code, these laws had been published in the Corpus Juris Civilis when Justinian died in 565. -
Saint Benedict
He was the father of western monasticism. Wrote the book on being a monk and his rules have become apart of a monk's life to follow still today. -
Carolingian Renaissance
Period of intellectual and cultural renewal in Eruope during this time there was an increase in writing arts, archticture and jurisimrndece.
