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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Ages_(historiography)
A period of time where not many people were recording ideas and events because they needed government and protection after the fall of the Roman Empire. -
http://westernreservepublicmedia.org/middleages/feud_feudalw.htm
A social class based on owned land was formed to protect the people of Europe during the Middle Ages. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Jerusalem_(637)
Muslims invaded and conquered the holy city of Jerusalem.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Crusade
The Crusaders were successful in taking back Jerusalem in 1099 and set up Crusader states around Jerusalem. -
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crus/hd_crus.htm
The Crusades were a series of wars that lasted almost 200 years. Christians were trying to take control of the holy land in Jerusalum back from Muslims that had previously taken that land from Christians. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Crusade
fter the fall of the Crusader states and Crusaders losing control fo Jerusalem, another crusade was launched. This time, two armies joined together to fight the Turks -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Crusade
This crusade was very successful in capturing cities around Jerusalem, but Crusaders failed to capture Jerusalem itself. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaissance
A time period in which poeple in Europe started to care about art, science, and philosophy. -
http://www.history.com/topics/black-death
Flees carying the Bubonic Plague found rats to settle on, and those rats got on ships that sailed to Europe and spead the Plague all across Europe killing millions. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death
The Plague that killed millions of Europeans had ended, but had deffinatley taken its toll on Europe. -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation
A movement where people tried and succeeded to limit the power and corruption of the Catholic Church starting with Martin Luther's 95 theses.