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The Middle Ages

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  • Period: 400 to 1400

    Economic system

    In medieval times, the economic system was based on agriculture, under a feudal form. Royalty, nobility and clergy owned lands that peasants, who represented 80% of the population, were in charge of cultivating.
  • 476

    The fall of Rome

    The fall of Rome
    The fall of the Western Roman Empire, also called the fall of the Roman Empire or the fall of Rome, was the loss of central political control in the Western Roman Empire, a process in which the Empire failed to enforce its rule, and its vast territory was divided into several successor polities.
  • Period: 476 to 1500

    the cristian west

    Christianity has brought us to this day, its values ​​have allowed us to develop the full humanistic potential of human beings. It is that tradition, the humanist one, that the Western world cannot lose and has the obligation to preserve, to fight for it.
  • 500

    feudalism politic

    feudalism politic
    In the Middle Ages, the political regime in Europe was known as feudalism, where the king had to cede part of his power to the members of the nobility, losing control of those territories, in exchange for obedience, fidelity and support in the wars.
  • Period: 632 to 642

    Islam

    Classical Islam or medieval Islam is the period in the history of Islam that begins in pre-Islamic Arabia and ends in the 15th century, when, on the one hand, the end of the Kingdom of Granada (the last Muslim kingdom of al- Andalus, 1492), and on the other hand the expansion of the Ottoman Empire begins (taking of Constantinople).
  • 800

    The rise of the Carolingian Empire

    The rise of the Carolingian Empire
    the rise of the Carolingian Empire in the year 800, the first imperial power that can be called feudal, and the arrival of Islam in Europe, which ended its expansion with the battle of Poitiers in the year 732.
  • Period: 1073 to 1085

    Gregorian reform

    Result of the measures adopted by the Roman pontiff Gregory VII (1073-1085). These measures aimed at the renewal of the Church and the affirmation of the authority of the Roman pontiff.
  • 1088

    The firsts universities

    The birth of the university in the Middle Ages
    In the 13th century there were already a dozen universities proper. In addition to the three mentioned there were those of Cambridge in England (1209), those of Palencia (1212) and Salamanca (1218) in Spain, those of Montpellier (1220) and Toulouse (1229) in France, and those of Padua (1222). and Naples (1224) in Italy.
  • 1450

    Imprent

    Imprent
    Gutenberg: the inventor who changed the world
    After years of secret research and testing, around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, a system that would transform the dissemination of knowledge in Europe.
  • 1485

    Battle of Bosworth Field

    Battle of Bosworth Field
    the battle was won by an alliance of Lancastrians and disaffected Yorkists. Their leader Henry Tudor, Earl of Richmond, became the first English monarch of the Tudor dynasty by his victory and subsequent marriage to a Yorkist princess.