The Middle Ages in Europe

  • 536

    Little Ice Age

    Little Ice Age
    In AD 536, the first of three massive volcanic eruptions ushered in a mini ice age.
  • 700

    feudalism

    feudalism
    A partir de finales del siglo 70 d.C., un gran número de invasores asaltaron pueblos de toda Europa. Esto resultó en un colapso de la ley y el orden, una disminución en el comercio y el colapso de las economías locales. Para contrarrestar estas amenazas, los reyes francos necesitaban guerreros.
  • 1096

    First Crusades

    First Crusades
    Fatimids retake Jerusalem from Seljuk Turks
  • Period: 1147 to 1149

    Second Crusades

    The Second Crusade is launched to recapture Edessa for Christendom. It is not successful.
  • Period: 1189 to 1192

    Third Crusades

    military expedition (1189–92) that was mounted by western European Christians in an attempt to retake the Crusader states in the Levant (most notably the kingdom of Jerusalem) that had fallen to Muslim leader Saladin in 1187 as a result of his.
  • 1257

    Little Ice Age

    Little Ice Age
    It began in the 13th century because of a drop in temperatures (following the eruption of Samalas in 1257 CE), but temperatures fell abruptly again in the early 15th century.
  • 1300

    Black Death

    Black Death
    The Black Death was a devastating global epidemic of bubonic plague that struck Europe and Asia in the mid-1300s.
  • 1347

    Black Death

    Black Death
    La Peste Negra se traslada de China y Asia Central a Europa cuando un ejército dirigido por el gobernante mongol Janibeg ataca el puerto comercial genovés de Kaffa (ahora Feodosia) en Crimea.
  • 1500

    Black Death

    Black Death
    Las consecuencias de la Pequeña Edad de Hielo, el hambre y la Peste Negra se vieron principalmente en la disminución de la población. La población no aumentaría a su número original hasta después de 1500.
  • feudalism

    feudalism
    The ceremony in which the oath was taken was called homage (from the Latin, homo; “man”). These institutions survived in England until they were abolished by Parliament in 1645