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Period: 200 to
Medievial Times
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400
Fall of Rome
Being a Roman was so popular that people that weren't Roman thought they were. Even after the empire was defeted the people still thought they were under the power of the Roman empire -
542
Bubonic Plauge struck Europe and Northern Africa
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Jan 1, 600
People reunite to rebuild the roman empire
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Jan 1, 711
France and Geremany name kingdom holy Roman Empire
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Jan 1, 1000
Middle Middle ages take place
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Jan 1, 1071
The Mongol Empire brought peace to most of Asia, and encouraged trade along the Silk Road.
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Jan 1, 1250
The Late Middle Ages begin
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Jan 1, 1300
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By the early 1300s, however, Europe suffered from both war and disease. England and France began to fight the Hundred Years' War, which made both England and France much poorer. Germany and Italy fought a long series of wars as well. The wars were made much worse by the Black Death, or bubonic plague, which spread along the Silk Road from China to Europe starting in 1328, killing millions of people and causing the collapse of the Mongol Empire. -
Jan 1, 1400
By the 1400s...Con... [click for full details]
and West Asia and Central Asia, now they were trying to grow on their own. -
Jan 1, 1400
By the 1400s, [click to see full description]
By the 1400s, after the plague, Europe looked very different. The wars were over. The end of the Silk Road forced traders to look for other ways to get things from China and India. Explorers began to try to find a way to sail from Europe around Africa to China. In 1453, the Ottomans conquered the last traces of the Roman Empire in Constantinople. In 1492, Spain forced the last Muslim rulers out of Granada (and the Jews). Instead of Europeans depending on the Eastern Roman Contiued nex paragraph] -
Middle Ages begin